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. 2022 Mar 12;19(6):3371.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph19063371.

Perception of Occupational and Environmental Risks and Hazards among Mineworkers: A Psychometric Paradigm Approach

Mahmaod Alrawad  1   2 , Abdalwali Lutfi  3 , Sundus Alyatama  4 , Ibrahim A Elshaer  5   6 , Mohammed Amin Almaiah  7
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Perception of Occupational and Environmental Risks and Hazards among Mineworkers: A Psychometric Paradigm Approach

Mahmaod Alrawad et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

This study aims to assess workers' perception of occupational and environmental risks and hazards using the psychometric paradigm. For this purpose, data were collected using survey questionnaires from 360 mineworkers recruited from mineral and sand mines. Respondents were asked to evaluate eight occupational and environmental risks and hazards on nine commonly used risk characteristics. The principal component analysis revealed that two components, "Dreaded" and "Unknown", explained 73% percent of the total variance in workers' risk perception. The results also showed that the risk of developing an occupational disease was perceived as the most dreaded and unknown type of risk, while landslide, occupational noise, and vibration exposure were the least familiar to the respondents. A practical implication of this research is that the results may offer an insight into the employees' perceptions of the hazards and risks associated with their working environment. This could help risk management develop and implement effective risk management and communications strategies.

Keywords: occupational and environmental risks; psychometric paradigm; risk communication; risk perceptions; safety and health; safety culture.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Location of risks in the plane of Principal Components 1 and 2 for the study sample.
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Figure 2
The overall mean risk ratings for each hazard. (Error bars represent ±1 standard deviation (SD)).
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