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A Qualitative Study on Safety Rule Violation Motives at Manufacturing Plants

제조사업장의 안전규정 위반요인에 대한 정성적 연구

  • Hong, In-gie (Department of Safety Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation) ;
  • Baek, Jong-bae (Department of Safety Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation)
  • 홍인기 (한국교통대학교 안전공학과) ;
  • 백종배 (한국교통대학교 안전공학과)
  • Received : 2015.07.02
  • Accepted : 2015.11.16
  • Published : 2016.04.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that influence safety rule violation at work. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 337 participants from nine manufacturing plants. The results of the content analysis revealed the following six categories: Individual characteristics, safety commitment, safety support and resources, safety competence and communication, production pressure, and problems with rules. Among the 14 factors in the six categories above, indirect accident experience in the individual characteristics category and no action for complying with laws in the problems with rules category had not been identified in previous studies. However, some factors, such as age, peer pressure, pay type, the lowering of risk, a masculine way of working, and supervisor position were not found in this study. The implications and limitations are discussed.

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