Why Do Workers Take Safety Risks?—A Conceptual Model for the Motivation Underpinning Perverse Agency

Exposure to chronic harm is difficult to manage and prevent in industry. There is a need to better understand the state of mind when workers disregard safety processes and expose themselves to this type of risk. This paper develops a theoretical model of the reason why workers voluntarily expose the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zuzhen Ji, Dirk Pons, John Pearse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-06-01
Series:Safety
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2313-576X/4/2/24