Abstract

Increasing support for the relationship between accident liability and personality traits led to research focusing on the personality factors that promote workplace accidents. In study 1, a large sample of railroad officials were asked to complete the Safety Locus of Control Questionnaire(SLCQ) and the Stress Susceptibility Questionnaire(SSQ). Factor analysis revealed three factors in each of them: accident prevention, unavoidability of accidents, relationship between fortunes and accidents in the SLCQ and a heavy workload, unclear responsibility, obscure objectives of the work in the SSQ. In study 2, two groups(accident involvement group and non-accident involvement group) of railroad officials were recruited to investigate possible indicator of accident involvement at work. Both groups were asked to complete the SLCQ, the SSQ, the Introversion-Extroversion Scale and the Neuroticism Scale. Those in accident involvement group show higher external scores, higher susceptibility scores and higher N scores than those in non-accident involvement group.