Comparability of Self-Ratings and Observer Ratings in Occupational Psychosocial Risk Assessments: Is There Agreement?

Table 2

Descriptive statistics for the different methods and interrater agreement (IRA).

Work activities companies A to K	Self-ratings			Committee ratings			IRA
	N	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD	ICC
Company A
Administrative work A	23	1.99	.56	9 (12)	1.46	.77	.75
Childcare	40	2.19	.54	10 (12)	2.48	.92	.77
Fire service	27	1.73	.55	7 (12)	1.94	.95	.72
Administrative work B	12	2.04	.58	4 (12)	2.47	.83	.77
Administrative work C	18	2.41	.52	3(12)	2.52	.81	.86
Company B
Pharmaceutical work	54	1.91	.51	2 (3,3)	2.34	.73	.71
Company C
Medical-psychological work	10	2.10	.52	4 (3,3,4,6)	1.92	.64	.77
Service, kitchen, technology, cleaning work	12	1.98	.52	5 (3,3,3,4,6)	2.20	.60	.65
Administrative work	12	2.10	.61	3 (3,4,6)	2.12	.65	.80
Company D
Sales work	26	2.12	.65	4 (4,7,7,11)	2.39	.59	.82
Production work	19	1.77	.56	5 (4,4,7,7,11)	1.75	.70	.84
Laboratory work	12	1.85	.75	4 (4,7,7,11)	2.24	.48	.67
Management work	22	2.20	.42	3 (4,7,11)	2.51	.38	.59
Administrative work	38	2.25	.47	2 (4,7)	2.05	.62	.55
Company E
Law enforcement service	42	1.74	.44	6 (3,5,5,4,6,10)	2.07	.49	.72
Company F
Development engineering/customer acquisition	17	2.24	.54	2 (3,11)	2.40	.65	.78
Production, service, stock	17	1.92	.55	2 (3,3)	2.58	.52	.39
Company G
Childcare	22	2.38	.45	4 (3,3,4,7)	2.25	.73	.73
Company H
Security surveillance	97	1.75	.52	6 (1,3,3,4,5,11)	1.59	.54	.81
Company I
Physiotherapeutic work	13	2.15	.67	3 (2,4,6)	2.13	.66	.82
Company J
Administrative work	20	2.00	.52	3 (4,5,7)	2.49	.57	.55
Company K
Administrative work with citizen contact	45	2.07	.58	5 (1,3,4,4,5)	2.26	.62	.79
PsyHealth							.71

Note. N: number of raters; SD: Standard Deviation; IRA: interrater agreement; ICC: intraclass correlation, unjust, mean; 1: management, 2: management representative, 3: supervisor, 4: staff council representative, 5: occupational safety officer, 6: occupational physician, 7: human resource representative, 8: occupational health manager, 9: equal opportunity commissioner, 10: representative of severely handicapped persons, 11: other/not applicable, 12: group assessment, 13: safety representative.