TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1985//
TI  - Absenteeism, accidents and risk-taking
JO  - Journal of occupational accidents
A1  - Verhaegen, P.
A1  - Strubbe, J
A1  - Vonck, R
A1  - Van Den Abeele, J
SP  - 177
EP  - 186
VL  - 7
IS  - 3
N2  - In a seminal study Hill and Trist (1953) found a relationship between accidents and absenteeism. This relationship was confirmed in a series of statistical analyses, carried out at different times in five different firms and involving data of hundreds of accidents. This relationship was especially significant for accidents in which the victim had been active. One plausible explanation is that active accident victims display a more negative attitude towards their firm and its safety rules. So, they ignore some of these rules, which leads to more risk taking in their work. This explanation was confirmed by an interview and questionnaire study of ten accident-free workers, ten workers who had had an accident in which they had been passive, and ten workers who had been victims of an accident in which they had been active.<p />
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SN  - 0376-6349
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -