Evaluating contact techniques: assessing the impact of a regulator's intervention on the health and safety performance of small and medium-sized businesses
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The Centre for Environmental and Risk Management, through funding from the UK Health and Safety Executive, embarked on a project to help develop an evaluation methodology for assessing quantitatively and qualitatively the effectiveness of seminar and mass-mailing contact techniques. The techniques are designed to augment traditional health and safety inspections at commercial and industrial establishments in the UK. Results revealed that seminars are effective in stimulating change, but mailing apparently did not substantially stimulate change beyond background level. It was also found that specific aims and objectives for the intervention should be formulated before the communication exercise.
Publication Name: Journal of Safety Research
Subject: Transportation industry
ISSN: 0022-4375
Year: 1998
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Evaluating the safety function: a conceptual model
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The safety function of an organization is evaluated by first outlining the specific objectives and the possible evaluation results. This is followed by data collection and analysis of results. The efficiency of a safety function can be quantitatively analyzed using formulas set by the American National Standards Institute and financial and economic performance ratios. These results are then presented to appropriate users, recommending possible improvements in the function.
Publication Name: Journal of Safety Research
Subject: Transportation industry
ISSN: 0022-4375
Year: 1992
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The Airline lifesaver: A 17-year analysis of a technique to prompt the delivery of a safety message
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The Airline Lifesaver (AL) is a 13.3cm by 9.8cm card any passenger can deliver to the attendant of a commercial airline to prompt the delivery of an important safety message. The AL card was handed to 1,258 flight attendants over a 17-y ear period, one-third of which included an incentive for making an announcement. As a result, without the incentive, compliance to give the buckle-up reminder was 35.5% as against 53.3% with the incentive.
Publication Name: Journal of Safety Research
Subject: Transportation industry
ISSN: 0022-4375
Year: 2004
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