Climate Survey Case Study Elizabeth And Henry

Introduction Elizabeth and Henry are both mangers in the health, safety and environment (HSE) field. They are employed at different companies, but both mange approximately 2,500 employees. For the last four years, Elizabeth and Henry have had their employee’s assess their work site’s safety climate by utilizing the Likert scale that consists of 50 questions with responses ranging one to five. Upon comparing the results from the self-reported survey, Elizabeth and Henry noticed that Elizabeth’s on the job injury and illness rates were substantially better than the industry average and that Henry’s on the job injury and illness rates were worse. It was thought to be that Elizabeth was experiencing under reporting, but that was ruled out. Henry hypothesized that trending analysis indicates that the direct cause of the on the job injury and illness is due to his employees behaviors. However, Elizabeth and Henry’s company safety climate scores are better than the industry average. Henry would like to improve on the job injury and illness rates, so that he can make his work site safer.
Background
Many companies utilize the climate survey questionnaire, so that they can …show more content…
Research has suggested that human error is the top cause of work place accidents (Wallace, Popp, Mondore, 2006). Researchers believe that human error is just a catch all term (Wallace et al., 2006). Human error can be the cause of one or many other factors such as inadequate work tools, unsafe work environments, personality incompatibility, and flawed work design (Wallace et al., 2006). With human error potentially causing a problem in the work force, it could cause someone his/her life. In the United States a fatal death approximately occurs every two hours and a debilitating injury every eight seconds (Zohar,