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. 2021 Mar;31(2):191-207.
doi: 10.1002/hfm.20879. Epub 2020 Nov 17.

Safety culture transformation-The impact of training on explicit and implicit safety attitudes

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Safety culture transformation-The impact of training on explicit and implicit safety attitudes

Nicki Marquardt et al. Hum Factors Ergon Manuf. 2021 Mar.

Abstract

The present paper investigates the changeability of safety culture elements such as explicit and implicit safety attitudes by training. Therefore, three studies with different time frames, training durations, and settings will be presented. In the first study, the short-term attitude change of students from an international environmental sciences study program was measured after safety training in a chemical laboratory. In the second study, the medium-term attitude change was assessed after a Crew Resource Management training for German production workers in the automotive industry. In the third study, the long-term attitude changes were measured after safety ethics training in a sample of German occupational psychology and business students. Different self-report measures were used to evaluate the training effectiveness of explicit safety attitudes. The change of implicit safety attitudes was assessed by Implicit Association Tests. The results of all three studies revealed a significant training effect on the explicit safety attitudes, but not on the implicit ones. Besides the training effect on the explicit attitudes, there was no effect of time frame (short-, medium-, long-term), training duration (2 h, 2 days, 12 weeks), and setting (chemical laboratory, automotive industry, safety ethics study program) on the attitude change. Based on the results, conceptual, methodological, and practical implications for training effectiveness and safety culture transformation are discussed.

Keywords: Crew Resource Management training; Implicit Association Test; attitude change; evaluation; implicit attitudes; safety culture; safety training; social cognition.

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Explicit and Implicit Safety Attitude Change (EISAC) model. Bold lines represent spreading activation and dotted lines inhibitory processes within an associative memory network. The figure illustrates the change of associative safety evaluations from risk‐oriented to more safety‐oriented over time

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