Development of Safety Management and Leadership Training for Logging Contractors

 描述(由申请人提供)：拟议的研究将集中在公共卫生区域6的伐木业，该区域由总部设在泰勒的德克萨斯大学健康科学中心的西南农业健康、伤害预防和教育中心提供服务。我们的研究工作将集中在Ark-La-Tex地区(阿肯色州、路易斯安那州、德克萨斯州伐木区)的伐木作业。拟议项目的长期目标是减少或消除脆弱的伐木工人队伍中的伤亡。本提案的目的是描述目前在伐木工地上使用的安全管理做法，以及检查安全领导、群体安全氛围和工人安全行为之间的关系。这项研究将让伐木承包商参与开发一种调查工具，以评估承包商的安全管理和领导能力，以及工人的群体安全文化和安全行为。该仪器的管理将产生数据，这些数据将有助于为伐木承包商开发安全管理和领导能力培训模块。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed study will focus on the logging industry in Public Health Region 6, which is serviced by the Southwest Center for Agricultural Health, Injury Prevention, and Education, headquartered at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler. Our research efforts will focus on logging operations in the Ark-La-Tex region (Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas logging region). The long-term goal of the proposed project is to reduce or eliminate injuries and fatalities among a vulnerable workforce of logging workers. The objectives of this proposal are to describe safety management practices currently being used on logging cut sites, as well as examine the relationships between safety leadership, group safety climate, and worker safety behaviors. This study will engage logging contractors in a participatory approach to develop a survey instrument to assess safety management and leadership among contractors, and group safety culture and safety behaviors among workers. The administration of this instrument will generate data which will help develop a safety management and leadership training module for logging contractors.