Summary information

Study title

Company and Employee Survey 2015 in Framework of the Evaluation of the Joint German Occupational Safety and Health Strategy (GDA) - Strategy Period II

Creator

Sommer, Sabine (Geschäftsstelle der Nationalen Arbeitsschutzkonferenz (NAKGS) bei der Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin (BAuA), Berlin)
Schmitt-Howe, Britta (Geschäftsstelle der Nationalen Arbeitsschutzkonferenz (NAKGS) bei der Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin (BAuA), Berlin)

Study number / PID

ZA6759, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.12653 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Topics: A) Company survey: 1. Function of the respondent within the enterprise; enterprise is an independent company or one of several establishments; headquarters or branch; number of employees (size of enterprise); predominant activities of employees; public or private sector; enterprise employs temporary workers; employees of external companies in the enterprise; working conditions: Exposure to low-exercise activities, to the working environment, to heavy physical work, to risks from handling machinery and equipment, hazardous or bio substances, to psychological stress from dealing with difficult groups of people, to high time pressure or organizational problems and to social relationships. 2. Knowledge and assessment of occupational safety regulations: self-assessment of the level of knowledge of statutory occupational safety regulations; assessment of the regulations on occupational safety as a whole (e.g. clearly understandable, clear regulation of employer obligations, etc.); difficulties in the practical application of the regulations. 3. Institutional occupational safety in the company: occupational safety specialist appointed; internal or external occupational safety specialist; regular reviews of the activities of this specialist and/or own activities as an occupational safety specialist; company physician, internal or external company physician; participation in the alternative care model (entrepreneur model); performance of risk assessments at the workplaces and occasion (risk assessments routinely at regular intervals, after changes in workplace design or work organization, in the event of special incidents, at the request or complaint of the employees when an employee is employed at a new workplace); year of the last risk assessment; aspects to be routinely reviewed in risk assessments (workplace design, working environment, work equipment, organisation of working time, work processes and procedures and social relationships); types of hazards...
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Methodology

Data collection period

08/06/2015 - 08/09/2015

Country

Germany

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Company survey: Probability Sample: Stratified Sample: Disproportional Employee survey: Probability Sample: Multistage Sample In order to ensure a sufficient number of interviews also from the smaller territorial units, the draw and control of the employee sample was done disproportionately by country.

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Telephone interview: CATI (Computer Assisted Telephone Interview)

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2018

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

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