BU414 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Personal Protective Equipment, Motivation, Occupational Safety And Health
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Several ways to categorize health and safety programs: engineering interventions, administrative interventions, and behavioural interventions. Engineering focuses on changing the physical environment to reduce exposure to hazards. Admin focuses on modifying procedures and exposures in the work place ex. the scheduling of work breaks. Behavioural interventions focus on changing employee attitudes, knowledge or behaviour regarding occupational health and safety. It is preferable to remove or eliminate the hazard via an engineering solution than to rely on other types of health and safety programming however this is not always possible. Safety behaviour behaviours leading to safe performance of a particular job. 8 categories of behaviour contribute to safe working performance: Proper use of hazard control systems in the workplace. Self-monitoring and recognition of symptoms of hazardous exposure. Health and safety programs have been aimed largely at encouraging one or more of these general classes of behaviour. When considering safety behaviour a distinction is often made between safety compliance and safety participation.
