title: Assessing the safety environment in work organization of road maintenance jobs.
abstract: The present study examines workers' responses to the safety environment in relation to organizational, individual, and situational factors in road maintenance jobs. A self-administered questionnaire including 80 variables was used to collect data from the workers. The study population consisted of 207 workers at nine work places. The survey response rate was 93% (193 workers). The attitudes of coworkers, and judgments and attentiveness had a statistically highly significant effect on the worker's own attitude. The attitudes of supervisors, attitudes of coworkers, and the manner of instructing had a statistically highly significant effect on the performance feedback. The workers felt that the establishment of safe work habits would be most affected by the road supervisor's management methods and feedback. A considerable proportion of the workers believed that risk taking was part of their job.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Occupational Health, Department of Occupational Safety, Vantaa, Finland.
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authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Niskanen
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000517:prevention & control*; D001290:Attitude; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D012449:Safety; D014186:Transportation