SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS HEALTH AND SAFETY BEHAVIOR

描述：小企业主是这一水平的主要决定因素 在工作地点发现的健康和安全信息。健康与安全的设计 干预措施需要了解是什么激励着小企业 业主致力于实施职业健康和安全计划， 他们在工作场所的政策和做法。这个项目的目标是 (1)查阅有关小企业主的文献资料 关于健康和安全的知识、行为、态度和信念； 开发一份评估这些因素的问卷；以及(3)测试这一点 对一群小企业主进行问卷调查。来自多个国家的专家 的领域(商业、社会学、心理学和职业健康)将是 采访小企业主，了解他们在 工作场所健康和安全。健康促进和健康促进中的行为模式 教育研究将被用作识别个人的指南， 可能影响业主健康的人际和社会因素 安全行为。少数成功的和不成功的小的 企业主将接受关于他们健康和安全知识的采访 和行为。来自专家和业主访谈的信息将结合在一起 与行为理论和模型在开发一个 问卷调查。这份问卷将进行测试和完善，与小 在将其邮寄给一大群业主之前，先将其发送给业主群。多重 将使用回归分析来评估两者之间的关系 报告的健康和安全水平以及健康和安全的变量 知识、行为、态度和信念。

DESCRIPTION: Small business owners are the major determinant for the level of health and safety found at a work site. Design of health and safety interventions requires an understanding of what motivates small business owners toward implementing occupational health and safety programs, policies, and practices in their workplaces. The goals of this project are (1) to review the literature for information on small business owners' knowledge, behavior, attitudes and beliefs about health and safety; (2) to develop a questionnaire which assesses these factors; and (3) to test this questionnaire with a group of small business owners. Experts from a number of fields (business, sociology, psychology, and occupational health) will be interviewed for information on small business owners' behaviors toward workplace health and safety. Behavioral models used in health promotion and education studies will be used as a guide for identifying individual, interpersonal, and societal factors which may influence owners' health and safety behaviors. A small number of successful and unsuccessful small business owners will be interviewed about their health and safety knowledge and behavior. Information from expert and owner interviews will be combined with that from behavioral theories and models in the development of a questionnaire. This questionnaire will be tested and refined with small groups of owners before it is mailed to a large group of owners. Multiple regression analysis will be used to assess the relationship between the reported level of health and safety and variables for health and safety knowledge, behavior, attitudes, and beliefs.