Assessing the Effectiveness of Safety Training Provided To Corrections Personnel in Appalachia

<p>The context of the study was assessment of whether corrections officers in Appalachia are receiving adequate health and safety training who attended health and safety trainings sessions provided by the OSHA Training Institute and Education Center on the campus of Eastern Kentucky University. Participants included in the study were corrections officers who have been working in corrections for a minimum of two years. Participants were required to be working in Appalachian corrections during distribution of the questionnaire. Participants were selected by using convenience and snowball sampling procedures. The questionnaire was sent on 4 separate occasions, 10 of the expected 30 respondents participated in the questionnaire. The majority of participants stated that they had received training sessions covering topics of conflict management and inmate mental and physical health, demonstrating the possibility that corrections officers are adequately trained in these subject areas. There may be gaps in trainings provided to corrections officers, only half of participants stated they received anger and stress management training components. The question posed after research analysis is how adequately corrections officers in Appalachia are trained on other intrapersonal, as the research did address other areas of intrapersonal skills outside of anger and stress management. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Safety, Security, and Emergency Management

Grantor dc:publisher

Eastern Kentucky University

Year

2016

Author dc:creator

• Al Yammahi, Ali K.

• Appalachia
• Corrections
• Health
• Prison
• Safety
• Training
• Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
• Law Enforcement and Corrections
• Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene
• Training and Development

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2016 Ali K. Al Yammahi

Repository record dc:identifier

https://encompass.eku.edu/etd/332

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:encompass.eku.edu:etd-1330