Research design: How did I measure workers’ implicit and explicit safety attitudes?
So how do you test workers’ implicit and explicit safety attitudes? I set out to explore the relationship between workers’ implicit and explicit attitudes towards safety and to determine whether their responses on self-report measures are impacted by motivation.
Two weeks ago I started testing participants who were workers from a worldwide mining industry. Four at a time, I tested 75 workers’ using a computer program I designed to test workers’ implicit safety attitudes. Participants were assigned...