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5.2 Discussion of results 109 6 CHAPTER SIX: PHASE 2 (QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY RESULTS) 115 6.1 Results 115 6.1.1 Predictions regarding health & safety activity 125 6.2 Discussion of questionnaire survey results 127 7 CHAPTER SEVEN DISCUSSION 144 CONCLUSION 158 REFERENCES 161 APPENDICES 176
INDEX OF TABLES Table 2.1. Employment and workplace size in selected European countries, from (Walters, 1996) ............................................................................................. 5 Table 2. 2 Standardised incidence rate of accidents at work by economic activity, size of the local unit of the enterprise and severity from Eurostat (2002)......7 Table 2.3. Stages of change and corresponding psychological or behavioural activity.................................................................................................................52 Table 2.4. Examples of targeted information according to the individuals’ Stage of Change ........................................................................................................... 53 Table 5.1 Reported Health & safety behaviours.....................................................89 Table 5.2 Health and safety training records ..........................................................90 Table 5.3 Key themes overall ....................................................................................95 Table 5.4 Why engage in health and safety activity………………………………89 Table 5.5 Key themes what enabled health and safety activity………………… 90 Table 5.6 How do you it works……………………………………………………..90 Table 6.2 Stage of Change by organisational size ................................................117 Table 6.3 Decision making and encouragement...................................................120 Error! No table of figures entries found.Table 6.5 Health & safety behaviour: Beta weights and significance levels in three-step hierarchical regression .........126 INDEX OF FIGURES Figure 5.1 Hours per week on health and safety matters......................................84 Figure 5.2 Number of staff and reported hours per week......................................85 Figure 5.3 Relative health & safety by stage of change..........................................86 Figure 5.4 Relative health & safety activity by business process ..........................87 Figure 6.1 Hours per week organisation spends on health & safety activity .....108 Figure 6.2 Hours per week by size on health & safety ........................................109 Figure 6.3 Size by Stage of Change .......................................................................110 Figure 6.4 Hours per week on health & safety by stage of change......................111 Figure 6.5 Organisational decision making..........................................................119 Figure 6.6 Organisational health & safety encouragement ................................119 Figure 6.7 Size by health & safety activity ...........................................................121 Figure 6.8 Scree plot of eigenvalues .......................................................................122
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3 CHAPTER THREE : LITERATURE REVIEW
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Barrett et al (2005) propose that t
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model does not explain how individu
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consensus on a theoretical framewor
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2005). Thompson (1986) defined cont
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according to level of motivation in
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Maclean, Sinfield, Klein, & Harnden
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may not be a valid reason for choos
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together with domains identified by
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SMEs. To facilitate this, behaviour
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disagree’, ‘disagree’, ‘neu
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Figure 5.2 Number of staff and repo
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Themes were identified from the the
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capabilities. The evidence for know
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study. It could be argued that this
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2002), although it has shown some v
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IMPLICATIONS FOR GOOD PRACTICE AND
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stronger links with their suppliers
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of health and safety appraisal with
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Dugdill, L., Kavanagh, C., Barlow,
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Haslam, R. A. (2002). Targeting erg
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Ley, P. & Morris, L.A. (1984) Psych
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Pilkington, A., Graham, M., Cowie,
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Tait, R., & Walker, D. (2000b). Mar
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Winum, P., Ryterband, E., Stephenso
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Appendices 176
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General Introductions We are undert
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Making 48. a) Are you aware of any
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Pre-contemplation Buying “No, I'm
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“Only the general risk assessment
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Appendix C - Questionnaire
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23 We have to have health and safet
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54 Carrying out health and safety t
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