Researchers from Simon Fraser University Detail Findings in Risk Management (Injunctive safety norms, young worker risk-taking behaviors, and…

Researchers from Simon Fraser University Detail Findings in Risk Management (Injunctive safety norms, young worker risk-taking behaviors, and workplace injuries)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Researchers detail new data in Risk Management. According to news reporting out of Burnaby, Canada, by VerticalNews editors, research stated, "Injunctive safety norms (ISNs) refer to perceptions of others' expectations of one's safety-related conduct. Drawing on a sample of Canadian young workers (n = 11,986; M age = 17.90 years; 55% males), we study the relationships among four sources of non-work-related (i.e., parents, siblings, friends, teachers), two sources of work-related (i.e., supervisors, co-workers) ISNs, young workers' self-reported work-related risk-taking behaviors, and workplace injuries."

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Simon Fraser University, "Structural equation modeling suggests that ISNs from parents, supervisors, and co-workers were related to less frequent work-related risk-taking behaviors, and with fewer workplace injuries via less frequent work-related risk-taking behaviors. In addition, ISNs from supervisors were directly associated with fewer workplace injuries. In contrast, ISNs from teachers and siblings were not associated with work-related risk taking behaviors, but ISNs from siblings were associated with fewer work injuries. Finally, ISNs from friends were associated with more frequent work-related risk-taking and more frequent work injuries via more frequent work-related risk-taking. This study draws attention to the relative roles of non-work sources of social influence and provides some evidence of how ISNs might be related to young workers' work-related risk-taking behaviors and their workplace injuries."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "It also contributes to practice by suggesting specific interventions that parents, supervisors, and co-workers could undertake to reduce young workers' work-related risk-taking and workplace injuries, namely encouraging youth to be safe at work."

For more information on this research see: Injunctive safety norms, young worker risk-taking behaviors, and workplace injuries. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2017;106():202-210. Accident Analysis and Prevention can be contacted at: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Accident Analysis and Prevention - www.journals.elsevier.com/accident-analysis-and-prevention/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting S. Pek, Simon Fraser University, Beedie Sch Business, Burnaby, BC, Canada. Additional authors for this research include N. Turner, S. Tucker, E.K. Kelloway and J. Morrish.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2017.06.007. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, North and Central America, Risk Management, Simon Fraser University.

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