Exploring the Use of Situation Awareness in Behaviors and Practices of Health and Safety Leaders

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• Personal Author:
  Willmer DR
• Description:
  An understanding of how health and safety management systems (HSMS) reduce worksite injuries, illnesses and fatalities may be gained in studying the behaviors of health and safety leaders. These leaders bear the accountability for identifying, understanding and managing the risks of a mining operation. More importantly, they have to transfer this knowledge of perception, recognition and response to risks in the mining environment to their workers. The leaders' efforts to build and maintain a mining operation's workforce that consistently executes safe work practices may be captured through more than just lagging indicators of health and safety performance. This exploratory study interviewed six leaders in occupations such as site-level safety supervisors, mine superintendents and/or general managers at surface and underground stone, sand and gravel and metal/nonmetal mine sites throughout the United States, with employee populations ranging from 40 to 175. In exploring leaders' perspectives on how they systematically manage health and safety, examples such as approaches to task training, handling near-miss incidents, identifying future leaders and providing workers with feedback offer insights into how leaders translate their knowledge and management of site-level risks to others. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Behavior Decision Making Hazardous Substances Mining Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety Staff Development

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• Keywords:
  Accident Prevention Attitude Author Keywords: Health And Safety Management Systems Behaviors Decision Making Hazard Communication Hazard Controls Hazard Identification Hazard Recognition Injury Prevention Management Personnel Mine Workers Mining Industry Occupational Hazards Practices Risk Management Safety Personnel Safety Practices Situation Awareness Supervisory Personnel Technology Transfer Training Workforce Development Work Operations Work Practices

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISSN:
  1075-8623
• Publisher:
  Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc.
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PMRD - Pittsburgh Mining Research Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  36-42
• Volume:
  342
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20051792
• Citation:
  Trans Soc Min Metall Explor 2018 Feb; 342:36-42
• Contact Point Address:
  D. R. Willmer, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Pittsburgh Mining Research Division, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• NORA Priority Area:
  Mining
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Transactions of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4c9c971e734f3f6b12e52bbd65b92c7ea8cbadf4bab81dc0d31b0648ff2bbe4bc7398190a67a1fcd3a613716dc43647a4c7d079e101eaa68821a920193c4ce2f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/227688/cdc_227688_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 194.80 KB ]