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This research project aims to contribute to the existing research on proactive safety behaviour. Specifically, it investigates how the concept of proactive safety behaviour can be applied in order to understand and improve safety outcomes for younger workers in a Malaysian context. The increase number of accidents and injuries involving this age cohort of workers motivates the focus on younger workers. This research is innovative as it integrates a human resources framework of ability, motivation and opportunity with theoretical perspectives on proactive behaviour. It is hypothesized that proactive ability proactive motivation and proactive opportunity will predict proactive safety behavior amongst young workers. This study also aims to identify a range of positive outcomes for workers engaging in proactive safety behaviour. This research is an ethno-methodological study intended to gain an understanding of Malaysian young worker perceptions of proactive safety behaviour.
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