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Non-Technical Skills in Social Networks: The Spread of Safety Communication and Teamwork in a Warehouse
Safety at work should be considered as the result of the daily interaction of operators. The present research wants to analyze which factors are involved in the development of social networks about safety at work. We assumed that two relational non-technical skills, such as safety communication and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7827254/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33435529 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020467 |
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author | Paolucci, Alessio Sangiorgi, Sergio Mariani, Marco Giovanni |
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description | Safety at work should be considered as the result of the daily interaction of operators. The present research wants to analyze which factors are involved in the development of social networks about safety at work. We assumed that two relational non-technical skills, such as safety communication and safety team member support, affect the in-degree and out-degree bonds of workers in social networks. One hundred and eight workers of a warehouse were the participants of the research, in which they were asked to fill out a self-reported questionnaire. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses. Results confirmed that safety communication and safety support skills play a role in determining the quantity and the quality of social bonds that workers can create at the workplace. To be specific, while safety communication was found to be associated with out-degree centrality (b = 0.24; p = 0.01), a nonsignificant relationship was found for in-degree centrality. In contrast, safety team member support was found to be associated with in-degree centrality (b = 0.28; p = 0.04). In other words, on the one hand, it was found that high levels of safety communication skills are associated with the tendency of workers to proactively search for colleagues with whom they can share information about safety. On the other hand, workers with high levels of safety support skills tend to be considered as reference points in terms of safety by colleagues, who are more prone to look for their help. Implications for both scientists and practitioners are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-78272542021-01-25 Non-Technical Skills in Social Networks: The Spread of Safety Communication and Teamwork in a Warehouse Paolucci, Alessio Sangiorgi, Sergio Mariani, Marco Giovanni Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Safety at work should be considered as the result of the daily interaction of operators. The present research wants to analyze which factors are involved in the development of social networks about safety at work. We assumed that two relational non-technical skills, such as safety communication and safety team member support, affect the in-degree and out-degree bonds of workers in social networks. One hundred and eight workers of a warehouse were the participants of the research, in which they were asked to fill out a self-reported questionnaire. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses. Results confirmed that safety communication and safety support skills play a role in determining the quantity and the quality of social bonds that workers can create at the workplace. To be specific, while safety communication was found to be associated with out-degree centrality (b = 0.24; p = 0.01), a nonsignificant relationship was found for in-degree centrality. In contrast, safety team member support was found to be associated with in-degree centrality (b = 0.28; p = 0.04). In other words, on the one hand, it was found that high levels of safety communication skills are associated with the tendency of workers to proactively search for colleagues with whom they can share information about safety. On the other hand, workers with high levels of safety support skills tend to be considered as reference points in terms of safety by colleagues, who are more prone to look for their help. Implications for both scientists and practitioners are discussed. MDPI 2021-01-08 2021-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7827254/ /pubmed/33435529 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020467 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Paolucci, Alessio Sangiorgi, Sergio Mariani, Marco Giovanni Non-Technical Skills in Social Networks: The Spread of Safety Communication and Teamwork in a Warehouse |
title | Non-Technical Skills in Social Networks: The Spread of Safety Communication and Teamwork in a Warehouse |
title_full | Non-Technical Skills in Social Networks: The Spread of Safety Communication and Teamwork in a Warehouse |
title_fullStr | Non-Technical Skills in Social Networks: The Spread of Safety Communication and Teamwork in a Warehouse |
title_full_unstemmed | Non-Technical Skills in Social Networks: The Spread of Safety Communication and Teamwork in a Warehouse |
title_short | Non-Technical Skills in Social Networks: The Spread of Safety Communication and Teamwork in a Warehouse |
title_sort | non-technical skills in social networks: the spread of safety communication and teamwork in a warehouse |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7827254/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33435529 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020467 |
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