New employees helping and job tenure

New employees are perhaps the least prepared in terms of the risk factors associated with helping (discussed below), yet new employees seem to be more likely to actually try and help. For example, new employees may not fully understand task risks, may not have fiiUy developed the abilities and skills (or understand the abilities and skills) required for the task they are wanting to help with, and may not realize the importance of acknowledging their interest in helping. Burt et al. (2014) 

Study Mean SD Min Helped and Helped and Helped and Overall 

There are several key determinants of whether helping might have safety risks and result in an accident/incident. First is a consideration of the risks associated with the task. For example, the two ta.sks of helping a colleague to supervise a test, and 

Communication is particularly important in helping situations. Helping is a deviation from normal work behavior, and by definition is not expected behavior. Of course, a work group may develop a norm where helping is expected (see Naumann 

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