Citation

Simonds RH, Shafai-Sahrai Y. J. Saf. Res. 1977; 9(3): 120-127.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1977, U.S. National Safety Council, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

Eleven pairs of industrial firms were selected so that the two members of each pair were in the same state, in the same industry, of approximately the same size, but had marked differences in work injury frequency. They were studied for the same period of time. All were visited and their records analyzed to see whether differences in management involvement in safety, promotional efforts toward safety, workforce characteristics, or physical conditions were related with the better or poorer injury records. Factors found to be related to low injury frequency rates were: top management involved in safety; better injury recordkeeping systems; use of accident cost analysis; smaller spans of control at foreman level; recreational programs for employees; higher average age of employees; higher percentage of married workers; longer average length of employment; and more and better safety devices on machinery. Factors not related with injury frequency were efforts to promote safety through workers' families; and quality and quantity of safety rules.