Beliefs of University Employees Leaving During a Fire Alarm: A Theory-based Belief Elicitation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite workplaces having policies on fire evacuation, many employees still fail to evacuate when there is a fire alarm. The Reasoned Action Approach is designed to reveal the beliefs underlying people's behavioral decisions and thus suggests causal determinants to be addressed with interventions designed to facilitate behavior. This study is a uses a Reasoned Action Approach salient belief elicitation to identify university employees' perceived advantages/disadvantages, approvers/disapprovers, and facilitators/barriers toward them leaving the office building immediately the next time they hear a fire alarm at work.

Methods

Employees at a large public United States Midwestern university completed an online cross-sectional survey. A descriptive analysis of the demo

SUBMITTER: Owens C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10300468 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature