SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS HEALTH AND SAFETY BEHAVIOR

描述：小企业主是水平的主要决定因素 健康和安全的标准。 健康与安全设计 干预措施需要了解是什么激励了小企业 业主对实施职业健康和安全计划， 政策和做法在他们的工作场所。 该项目的目标是 (1)回顾文献中关于小企业主的信息， 健康与安全的知识、行为、态度和信念;（2） 制定一份评估这些因素的问卷;（3）为了测试这一点， 一组小企业主的问卷调查。 一些专家 的领域（商业，社会学，心理学和职业健康）将是 采访了小企业主的行为， 工作场所的健康和安全。 健康促进中使用的行为模式， 教育研究将被用作确定个人， 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 企业主将接受有关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被合并 从行为理论和模型的发展， 问卷 这份问卷将进行测试和完善， 在将其邮寄给一大群业主之前， 多 回归分析将用于评估 报告的健康和安全水平以及健康和安全变量 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.