New Employee Safety Risk Factors and Management Strategies

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burt, Christopher D. B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2015, 2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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