The steel-industry workers described how interplay between
one’s state-of-the-day and the external work environment conditions
present at the workplace results in the individual taking different
risks. The first subcategory illuminating this was that being
new at work results in unaware risk-taking. The workers reported
that new employees take more risks, because they are less experienced:
‘‘Experience is lacking; they just rush in and do not think
about where they are going’’ (HRTM, 3), and ‘‘When someone is
new, they do not see the dangers, which one learns about over
the years’’ (HRTM, 3). New employees are often told that ‘‘You
should do what I say, not what I do’’ (BM, 7).