Management and Organizational Studies 3344A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Personal Protective Equipment, Engineering Controls, Job Rotation

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Engineering interventions: change physical environment to reduce exposure to hazards, provide personal protective equipment or redesign physical workplace, remove or eliminate hazard via engineering solution. Administrative interventions: modify procedures and exposure in work environment, job rotation, scheduling of work breaks, use of safety officers, use of standard operating procedures. Behavioural interventions: change employee attitudes, knowledge, or behaviour regarding: Key issues: ensure employees use knowledge and skills gained during training and consistently perform their work duties in a safe manner, organization"s role in supporting employee safety efforts. Major theoretical explanations of motivation: reinforcement theory (or behaviour modification, goal-setting theory. Reinforcement theory: power of external rewards and punishment, also called behaviour modification, chances of behaviour being performed again: Increase when current performance of that behaviour is followed by reinforcement (reward) Abc model: any behaviour occurs because of events that trigger the behaviour (the antecedents) and the results that follow the behaviour (the consequences)

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