| Abstract |
The report describes a questionnaire used to define the difference in safety program practices in factories with low and those with high accident rates. Pairs of factories in Wisconsin were chosen for the study. The members of each pair were comparable in type of operation, workforce size, and locale, but differed by at least 2 to 1 in the incidence to recordable injuries during 1972. The factories were selected from six different types of industries; food and kindred products, wood products, paper products, primary metals, fabricated metals and machinery manufacture. Descriptive and statistical analyses were performed on the data which suggested that companies had a low accident rate; greater stature and staff commitment given to company safety efforts, used more outside influence to install safety consciousness in workers, used a variety of safety promotion and incentive techniques, greater opportunities for general and specialized job safety training, a more humanistic approach toward disciplining risktakers and violators of safety rules, more frequent, though formal inspections of the workplace, more safety programs that emphasized both engineering and non-engineering approaches to accident prevention, and more stable qualities in the make-up of the workplace. |
