Workplace Safety Performance: Conscientiousness, Cognitive Failure, and Their Interaction

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 316-327

  Wallace, J Craig ^a   Vodanovich, Stephen J ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; JOB PERFORMANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; WORKPLACE;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE; COGNITION; CONSCIENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY; WORKPLACE;

EID: 0242287023     PISSN: 10768998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1076-8998.8.4.316     Document Type: Article

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