Industrial safety perception among post graduate engineering students

This paper describes industrial safe perception among University of Aberdeen post graduate engineering student. The immediate objective of this research is to identify safety perceptions of different high risk occupational industries. Results obtained were analyzed and compared with Health and Safety Executives (HSE) reports as well as the Oil and Gas Producer Safety Performance Report. The result showed that the participants perceive the Oil and Gas Industry is safe, second only to the Aviation Industry and that the Oil and Gas Industry is safest in the European Region. The research also concluded that participants´ perceptions were more influenced towards the concept of accident severity/dread rather than the concept of accident probability.