New Employee Safety Risk Factors and Management Strategies /

• Main Author: Burt, Christopher D. B. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Industrial psychology.; Psychology > Methodology.; Psychological measurement.; Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology.; Psychological Methods/Evaluation.

This reference introduces an innovative new-employee safety risk model, keyed to a typical new worker becoming acclimated to a new job and workplace. It reviews risk factors, their root causes, and how they can be addressed and minimized through targeted strategies at each stage of a worker's e...

Table of Contents:

• A Model of New Employee Safety Risks
• New Employee Accident Rates
• Types of New Employee: Experience and Pre-entry Safety Expectations
• The Job Safety Risk Profile
• The Influences of Recruitment Processes and Selection Predictors on New Employee Safety
• The Influences of Socialization and Pre-start Training on New Employee Safety
• The Initial Employment Period: Behaviors, Familiarity, Adaptation and Trust Development
• New Employee Helping Behaviors
• Measuring New Employee Safety Related Variables
• Integration of the New Employee Safety Risk Management Processes.