Readability and comprehension of business organisations' occupational health and safety documents and national model codes
dc.contributor.author | Taylor, Geoffrey | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-30T14:21:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-01-30T14:21:49Z | |
dc.date.created | 2013-03-17T20:00:36Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Taylor, Geoffrey. 2012. Readability and comprehension of business organisations' occupational health and safety documents and national model codes. Journal of Health, Safety and Environment. 28 (3): pp. 357-369. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38472 | |
dc.description.abstract |
Some aspects of readability and comprehension are reviewed following previous work on readability of occupational health and safety (OHS) documents. The results of readabiltiy assessments on OHS procedures from a range of business organisations and from draft Safe Work Australia (SWA) codes or practice are given. Readabiltiy grades on some recent mass media articles are provided as a contemporary benchmark. The results are also compared with some contemporary assessments of Australian literacy levels. The mean readabiltiy grade for business organisation documents was 14 (range 8-19), for SWA documents it was 15, while that for the media articles was 13 (range 8-16). Table 1 gives a full key to grade levels. | |
dc.publisher | CCH Australia Limited | |
dc.subject | readability | |
dc.subject | comprehension | |
dc.subject | OHS documents | |
dc.title | Readability and comprehension of business organisations' occupational health and safety documents and national model codes | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
dcterms.source.volume | 28 | |
dcterms.source.number | 3 | |
dcterms.source.startPage | 357 | |
dcterms.source.endPage | 369 | |
dcterms.source.issn | 1837-9362 | |
dcterms.source.title | Journal of Health, Safety and Environment | |
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