Table 3.
Workers’ facilitators and barriers for implementation of preventive interventions according to health and safety consultant of workers (quote number, see Table 4)
| Themes | Facilitators (+) and barriers (–) for workers according to health and safety consultants |
| 1. Knowledge | +: Knowledge transfer to workers on paper (8) |
| +: Multimodal knowledge transfer to worker | |
| +: Awareness of symptoms by worker | |
| –: Little knowledge of risk factors in private life by worker | |
| –: Little knowledge of physical capacity in private life by worker | |
| 2. Skills | +: Identifying stressful postures experienced by the worker |
| +: Coupling identification of stressful postures experienced by the worker with ‘advice on the job’(9) | |
| 3. Attitude | +: Worker feels urgency to implement preventive actions (i.e. otherwise worker has to leave the company) |
| –: Worker has no time to get used to new technical aids | |
| –: Employer fails to listen to workers’ ideas of preventive interventions | |
| –: Little willingness of the employer if there is no work disability (10) | |
| –: Worker is not open to change | |
| –: Little willingness of the worker if there is currently no work disability. | |
| 4. Culture | –: No time to get used to new methods for worker due to high production demands. |
| –: Worker’s reluctance to use technical aids from a sense of bravado (peer pressure) (11) | |
| –: Workers who work alone not allowing themselves a break | |
| –: Absence of employer at workplace | |
| 5. Income | +: Worker knows the financial consequence of work disability (12) |
| 6. Facilitation | +: Diversity in choice of preventive resources available to the employer for UEMSD (13) |