Table 3.
Characteristics of OSH experts using only Latvian for the search of OSH information by experience and workplace.
| Question | Grade | Only in Latvian | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 2010 | 2018 | ||||||||
| n * | N ** | % | n * | N ** | % | n * | N ** | % | ||
| How long do you work | 1–5 years | 10 | 29 | 34.5 | 33 | 91 | 36.3 | 14 | 55 | 25.5 |
| in OSH? | 6–10 years | 5 | 27 | 18.5 | 18 | 61 | 29.5 | 19 | 49 | 38.8 |
| More than 11 years | 5 | 24 | 20.8 | 9 | 43 | 20.9 | 33 | 82 | 40.2 | |
| At this moment I do not work in OSH | 1 | 4 | 25.0 | 6 | 15 | 40.0 | 5 | 15 | 33.3 | |
| Where do you work? | In a company providing external OSH services | 3 | 16 | 18.8 | 11 | 34 | 32.4 | 22 | 69 | 31.9 |
| In the OSH department of one company (there are more than one OSH expert in the company) | 3 | 10 | 30.0 | 12 | 32 | 37.5 | 14 | 35 | 40.0 | |
| In one company as an | 4 | 17 | 23.5 | 14 | 47 | 29.8 | 13 | 34 | 38.2 | |
| internal OSH expert (the only OSH expert in this company) | ||||||||||
| In several companies as an internal OSH expert | 2 | 8 | 25.0 | 7 | 33 | 21.2 | 17 | 42 | 40.5 | |
| In several companies as an external OSH expert (service provider) | 1 | 4 | 25.0 | 5 | 16 | 31.3 | 5 | 14 | 35.7 | |
| In state authority (Ministry of Welfare, State Labour Inspectorate) | 6 | 20 | 30.0 | 6 | 16 | 37.5 | 2 | 7 | 28.6 | |
| Other or unemployed | 2 | 5 | 40.0 | 11 | 17 | 64.7 | 4 | 17 | 23.5 | |
*
n—number of cases who have selected the particular answer out of respondents belonging to the group.
**
N—number of respondents belonging to the group.