Safety Rule Breaking in Disasters: A Qualitative Analysis on Disaster Volunteers

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Titel: Safety Rule Breaking in Disasters: A Qualitative Analysis on Disaster Volunteers
Autoren: Şeyhmus Aksoy, Ömer Demirbilek, Esengül Kaya
Quelle: Volume: 8, Issue: 1166-181
Journal of Disaster and Risk
Afet ve Risk Dergisi
Verlagsinformationen: Afet ve Risk Dergisi, 2025.
Publikationsjahr: 2025
Schlagwörter: Disaster, Job Demands, Job Resources, Safety Rule Breaking, Volunteering, Volunteering in Disaster, Sosyoloji (Diğer), Halk Sağlığı (Diğer), Public Health (Other), Sociology (Other)
Beschreibung: Volunteers are considerable human source in disasters. The stress, pressure and difficult conditions of disasters can lead to breaking of safety rules by employees, especially young people. Safety breakings may lead to stoppage or failure of the activities. This research focus on the young volunteers’ safety rule breaking behavior in disasters. Based on job demands-resources (JD-R) theory, data were gathered through semi-structured interviews from individuals working in the regions affected by the 6 February 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake. The research sample consisted of 17 young disaster volunteers between the ages of 18-26 who were eligible for criterion sampling. The data were analysed thematically, theory-oriented and deductively. As a result of the thematic analysis, 3 themes, namely job demands, job resources and breaking of safety rules, and 16 categories under these themes were discovered. Results implied that young volunteers use work resources against intense work demands. Although studies in the field of organisational safety suggest that job resources increase safe behaviour, this study indicates that the job resources of volunteers in disasters may increase breaking of safety rules.
Publikationsart: Article
Dateibeschreibung: application/pdf
ISSN: 2636-8390
DOI: 10.35341/afet.1462974
Zugangs-URL: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/afet/issue/91149/1462974
Dokumentencode: edsair.doi.dedup.....1b0fb7d27fbae89ad0af6db437b11161
Datenbank: OpenAIRE
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Abstract:Volunteers are considerable human source in disasters. The stress, pressure and difficult conditions of disasters can lead to breaking of safety rules by employees, especially young people. Safety breakings may lead to stoppage or failure of the activities. This research focus on the young volunteers’ safety rule breaking behavior in disasters. Based on job demands-resources (JD-R) theory, data were gathered through semi-structured interviews from individuals working in the regions affected by the 6 February 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake. The research sample consisted of 17 young disaster volunteers between the ages of 18-26 who were eligible for criterion sampling. The data were analysed thematically, theory-oriented and deductively. As a result of the thematic analysis, 3 themes, namely job demands, job resources and breaking of safety rules, and 16 categories under these themes were discovered. Results implied that young volunteers use work resources against intense work demands. Although studies in the field of organisational safety suggest that job resources increase safe behaviour, this study indicates that the job resources of volunteers in disasters may increase breaking of safety rules.
ISSN:26368390
DOI:10.35341/afet.1462974