| Survey research was utilized to measure the perceived level of employee personal control in an aerospace industrial setting and its relationship to the occurrence of self-reported lost-time and non-lost time industrial accidents. A representative sample of 178 hourly and salaried employees in an engineering division were asked to complete a series of Rotter locus of control questions and author developed industrial safety locus of control questions. The results from these questions were correlated with the self-reported non-lost time and lost-time accident occurrence. Demographic variables such as organization, time with the company, sex, and age were correlated to accident occurrence using multiple correlation. A small, but statistically significant positive correlation (Pearson r =.024), was found between perceived lack of personal control and non-lost time accidents. Longer company service, being female, and being older were related to having fewer non-lost time accidents. All demographic variables accounted for a total of 14.7% of the explained variance. Although no significant correlation was found between the variables studied and the lost time accidents, a relatively high correlation (Pearson r =.36) was found between the occurrence of non-lost time accidents and the occurrence of lost-time accidents. |
