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Agent-Based Modeling of Employee Protection-Oriented Safety Proactivity Behaviors at Small Scale Enterprises

Although the safety production level at small scale enterprises is important for business success, critical safety interactions among the enterprises, its employees, the public, and the government have not been explained well in the literature. To address this gap, a bottom-up method of agent-based...

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Autores principales: Wang, Qiwei, Curcuruto, Matteo, Mei, Qiang, Liu, Suxia, Zhou, Qiaomei, Zhang, JingJing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6545800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31236403
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/2471418
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author Wang, Qiwei
Curcuruto, Matteo
Mei, Qiang
Liu, Suxia
Zhou, Qiaomei
Zhang, JingJing
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description Although the safety production level at small scale enterprises is important for business success, critical safety interactions among the enterprises, its employees, the public, and the government have not been explained well in the literature. To address this gap, a bottom-up method of agent-based modeling is applied here that includes these key stakeholders. The study illustrates how employee protection-oriented safety proactivity behaviors, including whistleblowing and public exposure, can impact the safety production level at small scale enterprises, which are also watched by the public and regulated by the government. The results confirm that protection-oriented safety proactivity behaviors have a significant impact on the safety production levels at small enterprises through the interactions among multiple agents. The model results are validated using an employee questionnaire. The recommendation is for employees to encourage protection-oriented safety proactivity behaviors to improve safety production levels and for the public and the government to provide additional safety support.
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spelling pubmed-65458002019-06-24 Agent-Based Modeling of Employee Protection-Oriented Safety Proactivity Behaviors at Small Scale Enterprises Wang, Qiwei Curcuruto, Matteo Mei, Qiang Liu, Suxia Zhou, Qiaomei Zhang, JingJing Biomed Res Int Research Article Although the safety production level at small scale enterprises is important for business success, critical safety interactions among the enterprises, its employees, the public, and the government have not been explained well in the literature. To address this gap, a bottom-up method of agent-based modeling is applied here that includes these key stakeholders. The study illustrates how employee protection-oriented safety proactivity behaviors, including whistleblowing and public exposure, can impact the safety production level at small scale enterprises, which are also watched by the public and regulated by the government. The results confirm that protection-oriented safety proactivity behaviors have a significant impact on the safety production levels at small enterprises through the interactions among multiple agents. The model results are validated using an employee questionnaire. The recommendation is for employees to encourage protection-oriented safety proactivity behaviors to improve safety production levels and for the public and the government to provide additional safety support. Hindawi 2019-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6545800/ /pubmed/31236403 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/2471418 Text en Copyright © 2019 Qiwei Wang et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6545800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31236403
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/2471418
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