Risk Behavior and Occupational Accidents in the Mining Industry

Behavioral management as the systematic application of psychological research on changes in safety and health behavior to influence the safe behavior of collaborators in order to improve safety performance in the workplace and avoid accident as a product of previous motivational and emotional states. The objective of this study was to determine that risky behavior influences work accidents at Compañía Minera San Ignacio de Morococha S.A.A. The scientific method was used and the causal relationship of the research variables was tested statistically; the type of research was descriptive with a non-experimental design, carried out with a sample of 79 workers of the company chosen at random in the areas with the highest reported behavior: mine, geology, engineering and planning, and mechanical and electrical maintenance.The risky behaviors before the modification of the risky behavior were the basic cause of the occurrence of accidents and as safe behaviors were increased, accidents decreased notably.