Why do workers behave unsafely at work? Determinants of safe work practices in industrial workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 239-246

  Garcia, A M ^a   Boix, P ^b   Canosa, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b Trade Union Institute for Work Environment and Health (ISTAS)   (Spain)

^c EMER GFK   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; ORGANIZATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORK; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CERAMICS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RISK-TAKING; SAFETY; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SPAIN;

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EID: 1542614453     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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