Playing it safe: Dispositional mindfulness partially accounts for age differences in health and safety risk-taking propensity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie J. Shook ◽  
Rebecca K. Delaney ◽  
JoNell Strough ◽  
Jenna M. Wilson ◽  
Barış Sevi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Age Differences ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Dispositional Mindfulness ◽  
Safety Risk

scholarly journals Age differences in COVID-19 risk-taking, and the relationship with risk attitude and numerical ability

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Wolfe ◽  
Miroslav Sirota ◽  
Alasdair D. F. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Risk Attitude ◽  
Random Order ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Numerical Ability ◽  
Objective Risk

This study aimed to investigate age differences in risk-taking concerning the coronavirus pandemic, while disentangling the contribution of risk attitude, objective risk and numeracy. We tested (i) whether older and younger adults differed in taking coronavirus-related health risks, (ii) whether there are age differences in coronavirus risk, risk attitude and numerical ability and (iii) whether these age differences in coronavirus risk, attitude and numerical ability are related to coronavirus risk-taking. The study was observational, with measures presented to all participants in random order. A sample of 469 participants reported their coronavirus-related risk-taking behaviour, objective risk, risk attitude towards health and safety risks, numerical ability and risk perception. Our findings show that age was significantly related to coronavirus risk-taking, with younger adults taking more risk, and that this was partially mediated by higher numeracy, but not objective risk or risk attitude. Exploratory analyses suggest that risk perception for self and others partially mediated age differences in coronavirus risk-taking. The findings of this study may better our understanding of why age groups differ in their adoption of protective behaviours during a pandemic and contribute to the debate whether age differences in risk-taking occur due to decline in abilities or changes in risk attitude.

scholarly journals Health And safety risk mapping in workers of micro, small, and medium enterprises in Sukahati Village, Citeureup Sub-district, West Java

2021 ◽  
Vol 716 (1) ◽  
pp. 012029
Author(s):  
Mufti Wirawan ◽  
Adrian B Yogiswara ◽  
Aldrian Hanif ◽  
Algavusada F Yemix ◽  
Amanda S Yasmin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Risk Mapping ◽  
West Java ◽  
Safety Risk ◽  
Medium Enterprises

Red-Blooded, Rugged Individuals

2020 ◽  
pp. 165-199
Author(s):  
Jarod Roll
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Organized Labor ◽  
World War ◽  
White American ◽  
Piece Rate ◽  
Mining Companies ◽  
Lead And Zinc

World War I made the Tri-State district more productive and profitable than ever before. War industry demand for lead and zinc raised prices and wages, and led to the dramatic expansion of mines in the Oklahoma part of the district. Wartime nationalism also supercharged the risk-taking masculinity of the district’s miners who asserted their racist claims to the piece rate with new fervor that further undermined the appeals of union organizers and government health and safety reformers. But in the 1920s miners found their employers, who had grown bigger and stronger during the war, newly reluctant to pay them high wages. This stand-off created new opportunities for union organizers in the district, but Tri-State miners ultimately rejected solidarity in favor of the economic advantages they believed loyal, white American men deserved. By the 1920s, their working-class communities were organized around a faith in capitalism, violent masculinity, and white racism now transformed during the war into a staunch white nationalism. Having abandoned organized labor, Tri-State miners found themselves without allies as mining companies moved in the late 1920s to constrain their risk-taking behavior through new health controls aimed to eliminate silicosis and damaged men from the district.

scholarly journals MEVA - a new method of occupational health and safety risk assessment

2019 ◽  
Vol 290 ◽  
pp. 12008
Author(s):  
Doru-Costin Darabont ◽  
Eduard Smîdu ◽  
Alina Trifu ◽  
Vicențiu Ciocîrlea ◽  
Iulian Ivan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Deductive Reasoning ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
New Method ◽  
Risk Level ◽  
Simple Method ◽  
Safety Risk

The paper describes a new method of occupational health and safety risk assessment. This method, called MEVA, unlike the old ones, focuses more on reduce or eliminate subjective issues in determining the probability of manifestation of risk factors and is based on a deductive reasoning, with the help of which is studied the chain between two or more events. The novelty of the method consists in combining risk assessment techniques with evaluation of compliance with legal and other requirements, aiming to provide a more objective results of the risk assessment. In the MEVA method, the risk matrix is defined by 5 classes of severity and 5 probability classes, resulting in 5 levels of risk. After quantifying the risk factors, prevention measures are proposed for all the identified risk factors and each partial risk level is recalculated as a result of the proposed measures. The five levels of risk were grouped into three categories: acceptable, tolerable and unacceptable. The MEVA method is a simple method and it can be used for assessing various workplaces, with different characteristics of complexity, activity domain or occupational health and safety recordings.

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