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M A Vojtecky

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PubMed1988

Education for job safety and health.

The Federal Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHAct), while emphasizing the importance of engineering controls, explicitly recognizes the salience of worker behavior to the prevention of injury and illness by mandating training in job safety and health. Selected research findings from the published literature illustrate that: (1) reliable behavioral procedures that took advantage of existing engineering controls improved the health protection of workers, (2) changes in environmental conditions were effected through changes in worker behavior, and (3) changes in the social environment favorable to the adoption of safe behavior resulted from training and motivation programs. At present individuals who are responsible for workplace health education rarely have appropriate training in this area. Until individuals with special training in health education enter this field it is unlikely that education will achieve its potential as a method for combatting occupational illness and injury.

Accident Prevention↗
PubMed1987

Workplace health promotion/protection: correlates of integrative activities.

A synthesis of health promotion and health protection is becoming a national and international priority. A national survey based on a random sample of occupational health professionals was conducted. Results are presented for objectives and activities in three categories: administrative, health education, and integrative. Respondents (N = 385) were grouped by discipline: nurse, health educator, physician, industrial hygienist, and "other." The groups were markedly different in their choice of "most important" educational program objective (knowledge, attitude, or behavior change). Integrative activities (synthesizing health promotion and protection) were most strongly correlated with heavy involvement in administrative and health education activities. Support of unions, employees, and managers for both health protection and health promotion was also correlated with integrative activities. Differences among disciplines indicate a need for convincing some currently practicing occupational health professionals of the value of the synthesis of health promotion and protection in work sites.

Adult↗
PubMed1985

Workplace health education. Principles in practice.

The application of psychological principles that lead to the acquisition of skills, knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors for improving safety and health conditions in the work environment is illustrated by case examples. The emergent pattern of successful occupational health education can be described as a process consisting of instruction, psychological reinforcement, and establishment of new norms of safe behavior for workers. To realize maximum effect from education programs, occupational physicians and other occupational health professionals should upgrade and expand their understanding of health education as well as their health education skills.

Accidents, Occupational↗