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Road Maintenance Workers’ Perceptions of Safety Climate
This self-administered questionnaire has been used with truck drivers, operators of road scrapers, tractor drivers, wheel loader operators, and maintenance operators. The variables assessed include the attitudes of supervisors, the attitudes of coworkers, the respondent's own attitudes, the respondent's own actions, the effects of feedback, the effects of knowledge and instructions, the effects of manner of instructing, the effects of judgement and attentiveness, the impact of errors of others, and the importance of one's own professional skills.
Safety Climate for Road Workers and Supervisors
The questionnaire has been administered to both workers and supervisors in road maintenance, road and bridge construction, and central repair shops. It assesses safe work habits in production and performance, responsibility, indifference towards safety, individual communication, emphasizing cost-effectiveness or safety, and feedback. Extra items are provided for both supervisors and workers that assess giving and monitoring of instructions, clarity of instructions, safety inspections, diversity of work, importance of work, independence of work, discussions with workmates, personal...
Risk assessments and Safety Management in Workplaces
The questionnaire has been administered to both employers and workers. It solicits information on the employer/worker's company, the company's familiarity with the occupational safety and health (OSH) directive, the respondent's familiarity with OSH, whether the prerequisites for safe and healthy work are being met in the respondent's workplace, how safety management is being realised in their workplace, how OSH legislation has improved or changed safety practices in their workplace, how risk assessments are being carried out in their workplace, how the results of risk assessments are...
Risk assessment and safety compliance culture in the chemical industry
This questionnaire is suitable for administration to both employers and workers. It solicits information on the respondent's role in the company, the company's sub-branch of the chemical industry, whether chemicals are being used safely within the company, whether OSH directives are being followed, whether proactive measures are being used, whether retrospective data is being utilised, whether hazards within the workplace are being identified, how hazard and risk assessments are being carried out, how the results of risk assessments are being utilised, whether sufficient on-the-job...
The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire
This questionnaire consists of 16 questions, each rated on a five point scale from 'never' to 'often'. It was developed by reviewing other available empathy instruments, determining what these instruments had in common, and deriving a single factor that became the basis of the Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (TEQ). The TEQ conceptualises empathy as a primarily emotional process. The instrument has been shown to be positively correlated with measures of social decoding, other empathy measures, and to be negatively correlated with measures of autism symptomatology.
Guernsey Community Participation and Leisure Assessment (GCPLA)
While The GCPLA is a checklist, it is intended to be used in a semi-structured interview format whereby the service user describes their experiences. If the service user has insufficient language then carers can be used as respondents. The GCPLA produces both quantitative and qualitative data for analysis.
The GCPLA was initially designed to support an individual planning system in the assessment and generation of community participation and leisure needs, and to monitor the outcomes of interventions designed to increase and enhance the individual service user's experience of...
Sense and Self-Regulation Checklist (SSC)
Comorbid symptoms are common in autism spectrum disorder are associated with increased autism severity. Comorbid symptoms include abnormal sensory responses, sleep disruption, gastrointestinal problems, self-injurious behaviours, aggression, and irritability. It is recommended that comorbid symptoms are identified and treated from the time of autism diagnosis.
The SSC was developed following extensive interviews of parents of children with autism about their child's sensory and self-regulatory responses to ordinary, daily-life situations. It contains six sensory subdomains (touch-...
Autism Parenting Stress Index (APSI)
Stress among parents of children with autism has been found to be particularly high. Core symptoms, as well as co-morbid behavioural and physical problems, have been found to affect parents' stress levels. The APSI was designed for clinical use to identify areas where parents need support with parenting skills, and to assess the effect of intervention on parenting stress.
The APSI was developed following many interviews of parents of children with autism. The Items fall into three categories: the core social disability, difficult-to-manage behaviour, and physical issues. Items are...
