Chapter 12 - Health, Safety and Employee Wellbeing - Carbery and Cross

An unplanned or unforeseen event that could lead to injury to people, damage to plant or machinery, or some other loss

Focuses on changing a person’s feelings and inner thoughts towards safety

How to describe, explain and predict human behaviour in a work context

Focuses on what people do, analyses why they do it, and then applies a research-supported intervention strategy to improve what people do

Inappropriate behaviour at work that repeatedly undermines an employee’s right to dignity and causes that employee to become subject to high stress

Law developed by judges through decisions made in courts and similar tribunals

The overall quality of an employee’s experience at work

Entrusting employees to take responsibility for their health, safety and wellbeing by giving them the right skills, and encouraging them to get involved in making decisions

The relationship between employees, physical work equipment and the environment; it focuses on matching people capabilities to their work environment and includes such things as correct working height and correct viewing distance

Any source of potential damage, harm or adverse health effects on something or someone under certain conditions at work

A human decision or behaviour that has undesirable effects

How characteristics of the organization affect employee behaviour

The mental demands placed on humans at work

A situation involving exposure to danger

The attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and values that employees share in relation to safety