scholarly journals Improving safety climate and behavior through a multifaceted intervention: Results from a field experiment

2018 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 293-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Babette Bronkhorst ◽  
Lars Tummers ◽  
Bram Steijn
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Multifaceted Intervention ◽  
And Behavior

scholarly journals Violent Conflict and Behavior: A Field Experiment in Burundi

2012 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 941-964 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maarten J Voors ◽  
Eleonora E. M Nillesen ◽  
Philip Verwimp ◽  
Erwin H Bulte ◽  
Robert Lensink ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Time Preferences ◽  
Altruistic Behavior ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Risk Seeking ◽  
Long Run ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Impact

We use a series of field experiments in rural Burundi to examine the impact of exposure to conflict on social, risk, and time preferences. We find that conflict affects behavior: individuals exposed to violence display more altruistic behavior towards their neighbors, are more risk-seeking, and have higher discount rates. Large adverse shocks can thus alter savings and investments decisions, and potentially have long-run consequences—even if the shocks themselves are temporary. (JEL C93, D12, D74, 012, 017, 018)

A systematic review of construction workers’ health and safety research in India

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vigneshkumar Chellappa ◽  
Vasundhara Srivastava ◽  
Urmi Ravindra Salve
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Science Mapping ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mapping Approach ◽  
Safety Research ◽  
And Behavior

Purpose Construction workers’ health and safety (CWHS) research in India has not gained much attention among researchers. This study aims to review articles related to CWHS research in India using a science mapping approach. Design/methodology/approach A total number of 64 journal articles published between 2004 and 2019 were extracted from the Scopus database using keywords including “construction safety,” “occupational health,” “ergonomics in construction,” etc. VOSviewer software was used to examine the influential keywords, documents, sources and authors in the field of CWHS. Findings The study found that most of the current work focuses on safety management, safety climate, safety performance, musculoskeletal disorders and behavior-based safety. The result indicates no theoretical basis for the theories and learning methods for the existing studies. Practical implications The findings open up a research gap that researchers explore to enhance workers’ health and safety within the Indian construction environment. Originality/value The paper is the first article to provide a better understanding of current research in the field of CWHS in India by analyzing its growth through the science mapping approach.

scholarly journals Relations between Safety Climate, Awareness, and Behavior in the Chinese Construction Industry: A Hierarchical Linear Investigation

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mudan Wang ◽  
Jun Sun ◽  
Hua Du ◽  
Cynthia Wang
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Hierarchical Linear Model ◽  
Final Conclusion ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Organizational Safety ◽  
Safety Awareness ◽  
Unsafe Behaviors ◽  
And Behavior

The vast majority of accidents in construction are generated by unsafe behaviors. Some researches also find that the behaviors could be influenced by the awareness and safety climate. The safety behavior and awareness belong to individual levels, while the safety climate belongs to the organization level. Previous studies mainly focus on the relationships between safety climate, safety awareness, and safety behavior without considering their different respective levels and the interaction between levels. This study establishes a hierarchical linear model (HLM) of safety climate, individual safety awareness, and safety behavior to examine the multilevel relationships between them. Data were collected using questionnaire from workers in different teams on the construction site in China. The results indicate that organizational safety climates affect individual safety behavior and safety awareness. In addition, there is a positive correlation between individual safety awareness and safety behavior, and the safety climates have a positive moderating effect on the relationship between them. The final conclusion offers a path for the current practice of safety management in the construction industry.

scholarly journals Asking young children to “do science” instead of “be scientists” increases science engagement in a randomized field experiment

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (18) ◽  
pp. 9808-9814
Author(s):  
Marjorie Rhodes ◽  
Amanda Cardarelli ◽  
Sarah-Jane Leslie
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Large Field ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Randomized Field Experiment ◽  
Science Engagement ◽  
Children's Beliefs ◽  
And Behavior

Subtle features of common language can imply to young children that scientists are a special and distinct kind of person—a way of thinking that can interfere with the development of children’s own engagement with science. We conducted a large field experiment (involving 45 prekindergarten schools, 130 teachers, and over 1,100 children) to test if targeting subtle properties of language can increase science engagement in children’s daily lives. Despite strong tendencies to describe scientists as a special kind of person (in a baseline control condition), brief video-based training changed the language that teachers used to introduce science to their students. These changes in language were powerful enough to predict children’s science interest and behavior days later. Thus, subtle features of language shape children’s beliefs and behaviors as they unfold in real world environments. Harnessing these mechanisms could promote science engagement in early childhood.

scholarly journals The mixed effects of online diversity training

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (16) ◽  
pp. 7778-7783 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward H. Chang ◽  
Katherine L. Milkman ◽  
Dena M. Gromet ◽  
Robert W. Rebele ◽  
Cade Massey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Change ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Attitude Change ◽  
Diversity Training ◽  
Bias Reduction ◽  
Placebo Control ◽  
Women In The Workplace ◽  
Global Organization ◽  
The One ◽  
And Behavior

We present results from a large (n = 3,016) field experiment at a global organization testing whether a brief science-based online diversity training can change attitudes and behaviors toward women in the workplace. Our preregistered field experiment included an active placebo control and measured participants’ attitudes and real workplace decisions up to 20 weeks postintervention. Among groups whose average untreated attitudes—whereas still supportive of women—were relatively less supportive of women than other groups, our diversity training successfully produced attitude change but not behavior change. On the other hand, our diversity training successfully generated some behavior change among groups whose average untreated attitudes were already strongly supportive of women before training. This paper extends our knowledge about the pathways to attitude and behavior change in the context of bias reduction. However, the results suggest that the one-off diversity trainings that are commonplace in organizations are unlikely to be stand-alone solutions for promoting equality in the workplace, particularly given their limited efficacy among those groups whose behaviors policymakers are most eager to influence.

scholarly journals Abundance and foraging behavior of native insect pollinators and their effect on mustard (Brassica juncea L.)

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eeshita Mandal ◽  
Md Ruhul Amin ◽  
Habibur Rahman ◽  
Abdul Mannan Akanda
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Protein Content ◽  
Brassica Juncea ◽  
Foraging Behavior ◽  
Seed Weight ◽  
Seed Quality ◽  
Insect Pollination ◽  
Insect Pollinators ◽  
And Behavior

A field experiment was carried out in Gazipur, Bangladesh to find out the abundance and behavior of native insect pollinators and their impact on the yield and seed quality of mustard (Brassica juncea L.). Total 8 species of insects under 8 different families in 3 orders were found as pollinator and their abundance ranged from 0.5 to 6.6/30 sweeps. The pollinator insects revealed statistically higher abundance compared to pest, predator and other category. The pollinators were most abundant at 11.0 hrs of the day and differed in their landing duration on flower. Ant and cabbage butterfly stayed statistically similar and longer time (24.1 and 23.5 sec., respectively). The highest yield (994.3 kg/ha) was obtained from insect managed pollination treatment followed by open (759.7 kg/ha) and enclosed condition (272.3 kg/ha). Insect pollination revealed higher percentage of germination, t100-seed weight, per cent oil and protein content but the results did not differ statistically. Bangladesh J. Zool. 46(2): 117-123, 2018

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