Citation

Rundmo T. J. Saf. Res. 1995; 26(2): 87-97.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, U.S. National Safety Council, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

This study addresses how injury experience (i.e., whether or not employees have experienced accidents themselves) affects risk perception, their subjective assessment of satisfaction/dissatisfaction with safety and contingency measures, and job stress on North Sea offshore installations. The associations between these factors and accidents as well as near-accidents are also analyzed. The analyses are based upon a self-completion questionnaire survey, which was carried out among employees on oil installations on the Norwegian Continental Shelf in 1990. The survey took respondents from five companies and eight installations. The response rate was 92% (n = 915). It shows that the subjective evaluations of employees correspond quite well to the real risk and that when they have suffered an injury themselves, employees may feel more at risk, become more dissatisfied with safety and contingency measures, and experience more job stress than they did before the injury occurred.