Hopkins B L, Conard R J, Dangel R F, Fitch H G, Smith M J, Anger W K
J Appl Behav Anal. 1986 Spring;19(1):3-11. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1986.19-3.
We conducted a test of the usefulness of behavioral methods to control occupational health problems by reducing workers' exposures to toxic chemicals. Four plastics workers were trained in nine behaviors selected for potential to reduce their exposures to styrene, a common chemical with multiple toxic effects. Behavioral measures indicated that the workers quickly came to emit most of the behaviors. Measures of air samples indicated that large decreases in exposures to styrene accompanied the changes in behaviors for the three workers who had been selected because they most needed relief from their exposures and because they had opportunities to control their exposures by the ways they behaved.
我们进行了一项测试,以检验行为方法在控制职业健康问题方面的有效性,即通过减少工人接触有毒化学物质来实现。四名塑料厂工人接受了九种行为的培训,这些行为被认为有潜力减少他们接触苯乙烯的机会,苯乙烯是一种常见的具有多种毒性作用的化学物质。行为测量表明,工人们很快就开始表现出大部分这些行为。空气样本测量表明,对于三名因最需要减少接触且有机会通过自身行为方式控制接触量而被挑选出来的工人,随着行为的改变,他们接触苯乙烯的量大幅下降。