Improving workplace safety by thinking about what might have been: A first look at the role of counterfactual thinking

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 153-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yimin He ◽  
Stephanie C. Payne ◽  
Xiang Yao ◽  
Rachel Smallman
Keyword(s):  
Counterfactual Thinking ◽  
Workplace Safety

Assessing the Role of Referent in Counterfactual Thinking

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahan S. Ali ◽  
Melissa B. Cahoon ◽  
Mark S. Rye ◽  
Tarika Daftary
Keyword(s):  
Counterfactual Thinking

The role of psychological factors in workplace safety

Ergonomics ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (12) ◽  
pp. 1928-1939 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Kotzé ◽  
Leon Steyn
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Workplace Safety

Sustainable Development and Risk Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-27
Author(s):  
E. Yu. Pertseva ◽  
V. Yu. Skobarev ◽  
E. E. Telenkov
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Management System ◽  
Financial Risk ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Financial Risks ◽  
Performance Targets ◽  
Company Value ◽  
Risk Management System

In the context of the increasing role of non-financial factors of company value creation, many organizations, when developing a development strategy, go beyond exclusively financial and economic goals and include workplace safety, energy efficiency, customer satisfaction and other non-financial goals in their performance targets. Achieving such goals involves risks, but today there is no common understanding of the composition of the relevant risks, their sources (factors of occurrence), approaches to assessing these risks, as well as universal corporate tools for managing them. In this article, we offer our vision of the place of the so-called “non-financial risks” in the risk management system and show the possibilities of integrating non-financial risk management into the risk management system and the management model of the organization.

Causation

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer K. Robbennolt ◽  
Valerie P. Hans
Keyword(s):  
Causal Reasoning ◽  
Counterfactual Thinking ◽  
Tort Law ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Causal Inferences ◽  
Causal Factors ◽  
Legal Advocacy ◽  
Causal Chains ◽  
Multiple Challenges

This chapter explores the psychology of causal reasoning and the implications of this psychology for tort law. The chapter surveys what is known about counterfactual thinking, a process that is at the heart of the but-for test of causation. In addition, the chapter explores the multiple challenges that decision makers face in making causal inferences in complex real-world settings. These include evaluating the contributions of multiple causal factors, evaluating causation in the context of a background risk of harm, identifying the particular source of a harm, and assessing causes that are part of broader causal chains. The chapter raises questions about the role of legal advocacy in defining competing causal accounts and the counterfactual potency of those accounts.

Workplace Safety and Criminalization

2020 ◽  
pp. 391-408
Author(s):  
Paul Almond
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Contextual Features ◽  
Organizational Norms ◽  
Capacity Choice ◽  
Corporate Manslaughter ◽  
Open Question

This chapter argues that the contribution of criminalization to better health and safety in workplaces has been limited by certain contextual features of this regulatory method. It focuses on the role of criminal law in the health and safety legislation and the corporate manslaughter offence. In particular, this chapter argues that criminal law interventions are gravitationally oriented towards individualized notions of fault, capacity, choice, and responsibility. Once the liability enquiry is structured in this highly personalized way, the regulatory capacities of the criminal law to secure effective and enduring structural change is limited. Thus, it remains an open question whether the criminal law can accommodate approaches to responsibility that are more attuned to structures, cultures, and organizational norms.

The Role of Counterfactual Thinking in Judgments of Affect

1990 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faith Gleicher ◽  
Kathryn A. Kost ◽  
Sara M. Baker ◽  
Alan J. Strathman ◽  
Steven A. Richman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Counterfactual Thinking

Pennsylvania Workplace Safety: Employee Perceptions of Active Shooter Preparedness

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 920-939
Author(s):  
Lacey N. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Employee Perceptions ◽  
Event Data ◽  
Active Shooter ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Firearm Policy

This study investigated the role of workplace preparedness actions in employee perceptions of workplace risk, workplace preparedness, and personal self-efficacy in an active shooter event. Data were drawn from an online, state representative survey of 668 Pennsylvania residents in 2019. Nearly 40% of employees reported their workplaces had not taken any preparedness actions. Having a workplace take a greater number of preparedness actions was associated with increased self-efficacy and increased perceptions of workplace preparedness, but also an increase in perceived risk. Males and gun owners perceived lower levels of workplace risk and reported substantially higher self-efficacy. However, associations between workplace efforts and self-efficacy differed from those for perceived workplace preparedness. Associations with firearm policy and the presence of security staff also differed for the two outcomes.

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