*4.2. Respondents' Assessment of the Quality of Their Sectors' Efforts*

#### 4.2.1. Ratings of the Sector's Efforts to Prevent Work-Related Accidents

The second aim of the study was to examine respondents' perceptions of the quality of their sectors' efforts to prevent work-related accidents, and factors influencing this. As responsibilities for the prevention of work-related accidents are more clearly in the maritime sector, we expected respondents in the maritime sector to rate their efforts to prevent work related accidents as higher than respondents in the road sector (Hypothesis 2). This is compared in Figure 1, where we show results for the question: "How would you rate your own organizations' work with work-related accidents on a scale from 1 (= very deficient) to 7 (= very good).

**Figure 1.** How would you rate your own organizations' work with work-related accidents on a scale from 1 (= very deficient) to 7 (= very good) by sector. Shares from Road (N = 66) and the maritime sector (N = 46).

Figure 1 indicates that respondents from the road sector rate their own efforts to prevent work-related accidents as lower than respondents from the maritime sector. If we assume that scores ranging from 5–6 means "good", we see that 74% of the respondents in the maritime sector rate their own organization's work with work-related accidents as good, compared to 52% in the road sector. Correspondingly, 18% rate their organization's efforts as deficient in the road sector, compared to 4% in the maritime sector. The sector experts that we interviewed often referred to the rules governing safety in their sector and the enforcement of these rules when discussing their sectors' and organizations' efforts to prevent work-related accidents. Interviewees in the road sector referred, e.g., to the lacking enforcement of the Working Environment Act, while interviewees in the maritime sector referred to the SMS requirements of the ISM-code.
