Vehicle Driver Safety - Behavior Plays a Vital Role - 0 views
started by Peacock Hjorth on 19 Sep 13
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Naturally, safety education plays an important part in driver safety. Other facets may be even more important based on a 1993 study conducted by Behavioral-Values Re-search Associates.
The investigation was conducted o-n maintenance employees between the ages of 22 and 64, who'd been with (XYZ) Company for an average of 17.5 years. These were given four checks that tested their familiarity with safety rules and attitudes, their behavioral design, and their pictorial and physical thinking skills. Apparently, the study shows the only significant differences between both sets of workers (injured vs. non-injured) were within their behavioral styles and attitudes/values.
The research validates that when companies implement a pre-hiring evaluation collection program, four things happen. These companies:
Reduce injuries
Reduce employees comp statements
Reduce turnover
Reduce maintenance costs.
G & R Trucking in Gaston, S-c, is evaluating the behaviors of most driver candidates for eight years. H & G President, Clifton Parker says, We are doing a better job during the hiring process. The behavior testing has given us insight about the applicants true values and activities instead of discovering later. Clicking sepmar-firex.com.au/ maybe provides tips you can tell your co-worker. The bottom line is that it's helped us lower accident cost.
Good sense tells us that truck drivers who are normally careful and cautious are likely to cause fewer accidents than those who are prone to experience road rage. So, trucking organizations could be a good idea to employ individuals having a long fuse, individuals who are slow to anger.
The safest individuals are those who truly put the others wellbeing above their own, and those who are cautious and steady by nature. The BVRA re-search found employees with the best safety records are those that are full of the S and C behavioral styles and reduced in the N factor. They are also high in the Social value. Let me explain.
In 1928, Harvard psychologist William Moulton Marston described the four behavioral types (DISC) all of us have in different degrees. Around the same time, psychologist Eduard Spranger published his studies of six values or attitudes that determine whats important to us and exactly how we view the earth.
Target Training International in Scottsdale, A-z, continued their research and developed the initial computer-generated behavior and values tests that companies use today to hire and manage the top employees. These are two of the checks found in the BVRA research project.
The four behavioral types are D-Dominant, I-Influencing, S-Steady, and C-Cautious.
Those full of the N factor want get a handle on, they're quick to anger, and become eager simply. They're the people most likely to have road rage if they dont like the way in which another person is operating.
Those saturated in the I behavioral aspect are extroverted and people oriented; they talk a lot and like interest. The investigation found no significant difference in the I factor between the injured and non-injured workers.
People high in the S factor are individual and steady, they move slowly, and have a strong emphasis on their groups success. So we can see why individuals with a Core S design tend to be more apt to be safe drivers.
Those high in the D factor are incredibly cautious, pay attention to detail, and rely on following rules established by others.
Therefore, its understandable that truck drivers high in both S and C elements, and low in the N design will have or cause fewer accidents. Its also important that research shows those full of the Social value are the employees since they selflessly set others needs above their particular.
One thing BVRAs study didnt show, that we feel is significant, may be the rating of those workers in-the Individualistic Value. Much more than those with Core D behavioral types, people full of this value are passionate about having power and control over conditions and other people, so I believe its very important to trucking companies to employ individuals who are reduced in this attitude.
Simply put, the driver the one you wish to employ is one who is high in the S and C behavioral factors, low in the D factor, high in the Social value, and low in the perspective.
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