Mineworkers face a challenging and dynamic work environment every workday. To maintain a safe workplace, mineworkers must be able to recognize worksite hazards while they perform their jobs. Though hazard recognition is a critical skill, recent research from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) indicates that mineworkers fail to identify a significant number of hazards. To further the understanding of mineworkers’ hazard recognition ability and to begin to address hazard recognition performance, NIOSH researchers analyzed data collected during a laboratory research study to determine the effect of individual mineworker factors including risk attitude, work experience, and safety training on hazard recognition accuracy. The results of this study show that mineworker risk attitude and safety-specific work experience affect hazard recognition performance while hazard-specific safety training does not. These results suggest that some of these individual factors can be overcome through experience and training. Potential strategies that can be used to address these factors are also discussed.

矿工每个工作日都面临着充满挑战和动态的工作环境。为了维持安全的工作场所，矿工在执行工作时必须能够识别工作场所的危险。尽管危险识别是一项关键技能，但美国国家职业安全与健康研究所 (NIOSH) 最近的研究表明，矿工未能识别大量危险。为了进一步了解矿工的危险识别能力并开始解决危险识别表现问题，NIOSH 研究人员分析了实验室研究期间收集的数据，以确定矿工个体因素（包括风险态度、工作经验和安全培训）对危险识别的影响准确性。本研究结果表明，矿工的风险态度和特定安全工作经验会影响危险识别表现，而特定危险安全培训则不会。这些结果表明，其中一些个人因素可以通过经验和培训来克服。还讨论了可用于解决这些因素的潜在策略。