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Safety measures have not always been as effective as anticipated. If workers change their behaviour, e.g. by taking more risks, the benefit of the safety improvement is lost. This phenomenon is called risk compensation. There is some indirect evidence for and against risk compensation among Finnish loggers as regards the use of personal protectors. Two studies suggest that the accident rate would have risen 3-5.5-fold if all the cases prevented by the protectors had been injurious. In Study 1 (n = 1200) the use of personal protectors did not reduce accident injuries. In Study 2 (n = 2251, 90% of the test persons had noted that the use of personal protectors enhances the feeling of safety. Nearly half of the loggers reported that their work behaviour changed when they wore personal protectors; they became more careless, faster, bolder, and they anticipated less dangers. In Study 2, the use of protectors reduced accident injuries. This finding does not support the hypothesis of complete behavioural adaptation. The conclusion drawn on the basis of these two studies is that the change in behaviour when using protectors does not entirely nullify the protecting effect of protectors, so t

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Author

Tapio Klen

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0925-7535)

Published

1997

Language

EN

Field

Health Professions (Social Sciences)