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...
Ever wonder what your employees really think about safety?
Have you ever wondered what your employees really think about safety? Are self-report questionnaires an adequate reflection of employees’ true attitudes towards behaving safely; or does employer expectation and response bias impact results? This poses the question of whether attitudes beyond introspection (those exempt from response bias) are a more comprehensive predictor of employee safety behaviour at work. Through work experience with Taylor Phillips Employment Assessments I was introduced to the world of psychometric assessment...
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