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Relative Effects on Construction Workers' Safety Behavior Between Global Feedback and Specific Feedback  

Lee, Kye-Hoon (Department of Psychology, Chung-Ang University)
Oah, She-Zeen (Department of Psychology, Chung-Ang University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.25, no.5, 2010 , pp. 62-68 More about this Journal
Abstract
The main purpose of this study was to examine relative effects on safety behaviors between global feedback and specific feedback at a construction site. Participants were 30 full-time workers at a construction site. Five safety related behaviors were identified as critical behaviors. An ABCB within-group design was adopted. After baseline (A), participants received global feedback on their average percentage of all five target safety behaviors (B). In the next phase, participants received specific feedback on the percentages of individual target behaviors (C). In the final phase, the global feedback condition was reintroduced (B). Results showed that both global feedback and specific feedback were effective in increasing the frequencies of safety behaviors and there were no differences in the effectiveness between the two types of feedbacks.
Keywords
behavior based safety; specific feedback; global feedback; safety behavior;
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