ASSESSING THE SAFETY ENVIRONMENT IN WORK ORGANIZATION OF ROAD MAINTENANCE JOBS

The present study examines workers' responses to the safety environmen t in relation to organizational, individual, and situational factors i n road maintenance jobs. A self-administered questionnaire including 8 0 variables was used to collect data from the workers. The study popul ation consisted of 207 workers at nine work places. The survey respons e rate was 93% (193 workers). The attitudes of coworkers, and judgment s and attentiveness had a statistically highly significant effect on t he worker's own attitude. The attitudes of super-visors, attitudes of coworkers, and the manner of instructing had a statistically highly si gnificant effect on the performance feedback. The workers felt that th e establishment of safe work habits would be most affected by the road supervisor's management methods and feedback. A considerable proporti on of the workers believed that risk taking was part of their job.