Safety Program Practices in High Versus Low Accident Rate Companies – an Interim Report (Questionnaire Phase)

Details

• Personal Author:
  Cohen A ; Cohen HH ; Smith M
• Description:
  Description of the questionnaire phase of a project seeking to define whether there are distinguishable differences in safety program practices and other related factors in work establishments with low accident rates versus similar companies with high accident rates. Paired establishments were drawn from 6 industries, namely: food and kindred products; wood products; paper products; primary metals; fabricated metals; and machinery manufacture. Descriptive and statistical analyses were performed on the questionnaire data of the 42 pairs of high and low accident companies to isolate any differences in their responses to items dealing with management commitment to safety, motivational approaches to worker safety, job safety training, nature of hazard control practice, accident investigation and reporting procedures, and make-up of production work force. Conclusions regarding distinctive factors in plants having successful safety preformance were deferred until the completion of the site visit phase. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Food-Processing Industry Metals Occupational Health Paper Safety Safety Management Wood
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Control-measures Food-processing-industry NIOSH-Author Paper-industry Primary-metallurgical-processes Safety-measures Safety-practices Woodworking-industry Work-practices
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Questionnaire
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DLCD - Division of Laboratories and Criteria Development
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-180
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00048859
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-298332
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHEW (NIOSH) Publication No. 75-185, 1975 Jun; :1-180
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1975
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3ed73787a35c8a2a6fc6c3b32a9e9aac0156d96b440e520b8aad5e6ad97cecc263c4b29aaaaea10873284997fc000de3fad240fcbe3bbeec5ec93b593a1ba195
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/209192/cdc_209192_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.62 MB ]