HRM 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Transformational Leadership, International Labour Organization, Personal Protective Equipment

• School: York University
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM 3400
• Professor: Gary Blake

Document Summary

Discuss the importance of and identify the categories of safety behaviour in the workplace. It is important to understand safety behaviour in workplaces as there is a relationship between safety behaviours and injury rates. Therefore, targeting employee behaviour is an effective injury prevention strategy. Behaviours leading to safe performance of a particular job. When considering safety behaviour, there is clear distinction between safety compliance and safety participation. The extent to which employees follow safety rules and procedures. The extent to which employees go beyond compliance and engage proactively and voluntarily to actively improve safety. Modify procedures and exposure in work environment. All three types of interventions can be successful. Engineering controls are preferred because they change the environment, but engineering controls are not always possible, therefore, safety behaviours are promoted motivating employees to adapt safe practices in their routine work. Q 2 - explain the importance of individual motivation in safety behaviour.