Study on the comprehension difference between managers and front-line employees

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10.2991/peee-15.2015.82How to use a DOI?

Keywords

comprehension difference; managers; front-line employees

Abstract

The safety signs are widely used in safety management and daily life, which is applied to instruct and manage people, safety behavior. In this paper, the author use the questionnaire survey to research the comprehension of safety signs in the workplace among managers and front-line employee in machining workshop from 6 indications namely attention, hazard perception, safety note, safety knowledge, safety awareness, safety habits. Then the author obtains some conclusions: the vast majority (over 60%) of employees consider safety signs in the workplace are useful; over 80% of managers and front-line employees pay attention to the safety signs; over 70% of managers and front-line employees consider the safety signs really work; the front-line employees prefer to care about the effect of the safety signs can improve their hazard perception; over 65% of managers and front-line employees agree that the safety signs in the workplace have improved their safety knowledge; over 75% of managers and front-line employees think that have increase their safety awareness; over 80% of them consider the safety signs help to cultivate safety habits.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - W. Jiang
AU  - Z.M. Zhu
AU  - L.N. Li
PY  - 2015/04
DA  - 2015/04
TI  - Study on the comprehension difference between managers and front-line employees
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Power Electronics and Energy Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 302
EP  - 305
SN  - 2352-5401
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