Cognitive Mechanism and Intervention Strategies of Coal Miners’ Unsafe Behaviors: Evidence from China

Autori:

Lifen FANG, Zaixu ZHANG, Haihong GUO

Cod: ISSN: 1583-3410 (print), ISSN: 1584-5397 (electronic)
Dimensiuni: pp. 7-31

How to cite this article:

Fang, L., Zhang, Z., Guo, H. (2018). Cognitive Mechanism and Intervention Strategies of Coal Miners’ Unsafe Behaviors: Evidence from China. Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala, 61, 7-31.

Abstract:

Coal mine safety is an important part of safety management for a risk society and the unsafe behaviors of coal miners are major sources of hidden dangers. A considerable number of studies on coal miners’ unsafe behaviors have been done based on behavioral science. However, few studies have been conducted from the perspective of cognition. This study explored the cognitive mechanism of coal miners’ unsafe behaviors and proposed corresponding intervention strategies. A conceptual model of coal miners’ unsafe behaviors was constructed after the analysis on the cognitive failure mechanism of unsafe behaviors, and an empirical test was carried out in Zhaizhen coal mine of China. Results show the necessity of exploring the causes of coal miners’ unsafe behaviors from the perspective of cognitive failure. Among all the identifi ed causes, the combined infl uence of personal causes is the most profound and the degree of infl uence of environmental causes, organization management, and behavioral attributes are decreased in turn. Unsafe behaviors can be restrained by optimizing the employment mechanism, improving the level of mechanization of underground mining, arranging the job division and operation schedule reasonably, and improving safety training mechanism and safety culture. Moreover, the safety of coal miner’ operation behaviors can be ensured by improving safety management capability of managers, strengthening site management and safety protection, and improving the safety management system and incentive mechanism. T his study provides signifi cant reference for behavioral intervention to reduce coal miners’ unsafe behaviors in an eff ort to avoid the unsafe factors in risk society.