The Relative Effects of Global and Specific Feedback on Safety Behaviors

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to examine the relative effects of global and specific feedback on safety performance and to compare the generalization effects of such feedback on nontarget safety items at a construction site. Participants were 21 construction workers. An ABCB within-group design was adopted and the following conditions were introduced in sequence: baseline (A), global feedback (B), specific feedback (C), and global feedback (B). The results revealed comparable safety performance levels in the global and specific feedback conditions. However, global feedback produced a higher level of generalization effects on nontarget items than specific feedback did.

Keywords:

• specific feedback
• global feedback
• safety behavior
• generalization effect