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activities, a person with a qualification doesn’t meet the criteria to become a competent person
               or just a worker with several years of experience cannot be considered as competent.
               Competence is the combination of knowledge, training and experience.


               Level of competence needs to be proportionate to their job and work environment.


               Motivation

               Motivation is defined as “the driving force behind the
               way a person acts in order to achieve a goal”. Or in
               other words, Motivation is that which makes an
               individual act as he or she does. It is the tendency of
               an individual to take action to achieve a particular
               goal.

               Incentives and financial rewards are seen as significant
               motivators, especially on the productions or
               manufacturing sides.


               The importance of motivating the workers is to carry out the task safely without any errors.
               Workers are induced towards rewards and behave unsafely when performing their task, hence
               they perceive that taking risk is worth for the reward. The unsafe behaviour of the worker is
               incentivized.  They get incentive for their unsafe behaviour.


               For example, Worker may think that he wants to save time and energy, so he may by pass the
               safety systems as to make more productions and to make more incentives even the risk is high.
               If there is no reward scheme, then the worker may think it not worth taking high risk to perform
               the task and do not bypass safety.

               Rewards schemes are intended to improve worker behaviour, hence rewards schemes must be
               carefully selected to ensure that it is utilized for correct behaviour. For example, employers give
               rewards to the employees who has zero accident record every month or every quarter.

                So people think to work safety to achieve rewards, as a result of this the workers may reluctant
               to report incidents as it may affect their performance record, which lead to under reporting of
               incidents and unsafe behaviour, so that they can show go record of their performance to achieve
               rewards.


               Perception of Risk



               Perception is defined as ‘the way that a person interprets
               information detected by human sensory receptors in
               which a person believes or understand a situation














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