Abstract
Health and safety legislation typically requires employees to be trained for the work they are undertaking. Thus, organizations often have a legal obligation to provide new employees with job-specific training before they commence working. Added to this training, there should be entry and socialization processes (sometimes referred to as on-boarding processes) which are aimed at more general objectives, such as introducing new employees to the organization’s safety policies and procedures, and facilitating the development of the psychological contract between the new employee and the organization. The relationships between new employee safety and prestart training and socialization processes are discussed in this chapter. This chapter begins by examining research which has investigated how organizational members view prestart training processes and how this can change their perceptions of new employee risk and change employee’s behavior toward new employees in their initial period of employment. The majority of this chapter is devoted to practices which can be used to improve socialization and prestart training processes and employee’s understanding of the effectiveness of these processes.
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Burt, C.D.B. (2015). The Influences of Socialization and Prestart Training on New Employee Safety. In: New Employee Safety. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18684-9_6
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