Exam 10: Motivating Safety Behaviour at Work

What are the three types of health and safety program interventions?

Transactional leadership can be effective in producing safety performance.

How can HRMs ensure that employees utilize the knowledge and skills gained during training and consistently perform their work duties in a safe manner?

According to self-determination theory, what forms of extrinsic motivation result in more of a self- directed effort to work in safer ways?

Setting and communicating high expectations for safe performance of work tasks is associated with what dimension of transformational leadership?

What equation defines safety performance?

According to the textbook which employees should be eligible for safety incentives?

What two facets of the Canadian Standards Association model for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems are reflected in Ontario Power Generation's safety slogan?

Read the following scenario and answer questions. Working for an oil drilling company in the oil sands region of northern Alberta can be very lucrative, even for workers in entry level jobs. Workers have moved to Fort McMurray and other northern Alberta towns in the thousands, from all over Canada and even from overseas. However, the work is demanding and the climate ranges from very hot to extremely cold. Oil drilling crews need to work as quickly and as efficiently as possible as every hour of operation represents a sizeable investment in machinery, labour, and land lease costs. Crews have to move regularly from one site to another site because either the well goes into production or the well comes up dry. Oil drilling companies tend to be very safety conscious because of the hazardous nature of the work; it is not uncommon for workers to experience injuries to extremities (arms, legs, hands, and feet) as well as blows to the head. Fatalities are less common but not unknown. -Dave tries to follow the safety protocols on the rig as much as possible because he knows he would feel terrible if a coworker was injured due to something stupid that Dave did or forgot to do. What type of extrinsic motivation is represented in this example?

Proper hand washing is an example of what category of safety behaviour?

Which of the following categories uses techniques such as job rotation and the scheduling of work breaks?

Behaviour-based safety programs aim to make the consequences of safe behaviour positive, immediate, and contingent.

What basic model underlies most applications of behavioural programming in the workplace?

Considerable research suggests that noticing and praising safe work behaviour may be sufficient to sustain that behaviour without the need for tangible incentives.

Read the following scenario and answer questions. Working for an oil drilling company in the oil sands region of northern Alberta can be very lucrative, even for workers in entry level jobs. Workers have moved to Fort McMurray and other northern Alberta towns in the thousands, from all over Canada and even from overseas. However, the work is demanding and the climate ranges from very hot to extremely cold. Oil drilling crews need to work as quickly and as efficiently as possible as every hour of operation represents a sizeable investment in machinery, labour, and land lease costs. Crews have to move regularly from one site to another site because either the well goes into production or the well comes up dry. Oil drilling companies tend to be very safety conscious because of the hazardous nature of the work; it is not uncommon for workers to experience injuries to extremities (arms, legs, hands, and feet) as well as blows to the head. Fatalities are less common but not unknown. -As the drilling supervisor, Travis is responsible for getting the rig dismantled, moved, and set up on a new site as quickly as possible. What dimension of transformational leadership is he demonstrating when he asks the workers to try to identify safer ways of carrying out the move?