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Assessing Manufacturing Employee Perceptions of Supervisor Occupational Health and Safety Competencies and Potential for Occupational Health and Safety Training Facilitation.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Assessing Manufacturing Employee Perceptions of Supervisor Occupational Health and Safety Competencies and Potential for Occupational Health and Safety Training Facilitation./
Author:	Armstrong, George.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	142 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-10, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-10B.
Subject:	Occupational safety. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27830699
ISBN:	9798607312848

Assessing Manufacturing Employee Perceptions of Supervisor Occupational Health and Safety Competencies and Potential for Occupational Health and Safety Training Facilitation.
Armstrong, George.

Assessing Manufacturing Employee Perceptions of Supervisor Occupational Health and Safety Competencies and Potential for Occupational Health and Safety Training Facilitation. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 142 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-10, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Education has long been held by members of the safety profession as a fundamental element in a quintessential occupational health and safety process. Yet, it is one that has often suffered from neglect both from delivery and learner assessment. Frequently, employee safety training defaults to the site safety professional to deliver some generic content followed by, perhaps, a simple knowledge check which is then immediately followed by the next training topic with the intent of meeting strict timing deadlines. During their training, learners often lack sufficient opportunity to process the new information or to practice newly demonstrated techniques. In extreme situations, the learners may even be discouraged from applying the new learnings by peers or supervisors. Moreover, the employee's supervisor, arguably one of the most important individuals in the employee's immediate occupational network, may be invisible throughout the learning process. The purpose of this study was to assess perceptions of manufacturing employees regarding the role that front-line supervisors can play in championing an effective workplace safety climate and acting as an OHS trainer. These relationships were evaluated through statistical methods applied to data collected from employees of a confectionary manufacturing organization by using a survey instrument.Study results indicated that there were significant differences in employee perceptions relative to a supervisor's ability to effectively train and impact safety climate based on the supervisor's assessed knowledge and skill level. Employees also provided input on how to assess the mastery of competency. Notable was the difference in perception between hourly employees and management raters.This research was significant on the grounds that it provides data that demonstrates supervisor recognition of his or her potential to have a significant impact on occupational health and safety training and overall workplace safety climate. Derived from the results of this study, an intervention model has been developed that reflects on key aspects of the study. Supervisors, combined with support from safety professionals, are, indeed, a potentially strong resource in workplace injury prevention.

ISBN: 9798607312848Subjects--Topical Terms:

3172193
Occupational safety.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Manufacturing supervisors

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