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Emerging Scholars Division

Daniel Aguillard, Economics, Finance and Legal Studies Faculty Mentor: Jonathon Halbesleben, Management and Marketing Understanding Safety Behaviors in the Workplace Despite the importance of safety of in the workplace, we know surprisingly little about why workers engage in safe behaviors. Dr. Jonathon Halbesleben conducted a series of interviews with employees from multiple sites of a heavy equipment sales and service firm in order to find out how the employees as a whole viewed safety and how their view of safety correlated with safe behaviors. I engaged in qualitative coding of the interview transcripts to find themes related to safety in the workplace. From the interviews, we were able to discover the two main causes of accidents on site and also which teaching methods were most effective in making employees constantly think about safety. As a whole, there was a consensus among the employees that most of them were very safe on the job and that the company did a good job of stressing the importance of safety to them. We found that safety awareness led to safe behaviors and also that when employees are aware of their surroundings they will also look after coworkers.