A method to identify strategies for the improvement of human safety behavior by considering safety climate and personal experience

Zhou, Quan; Fang, Dongping; Wang, Xiaoming

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2007.10.005

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“…Assessing safety climate in an organization leads to good safety outcomes and behaviors [22][23][24]. Hence, it is important to assess the safety climate in Taiwan's high-risk industries, including metal industries, as the focus point of this research.…”

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Safety-Culture Exploration in Taiwan’s Metal Industries: Identifying the Workers’ Background Influence on Safety Climate

2017

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Abstract:The present study aims to assess the safety-climate level in Taiwan's metal industries, as well as to identify the influence of workers' backgrounds on the safety climate. An earlier report showed that a poor safety culture was related to the cause of accidents in Taiwan's traditional manufacturing industries. This study surveyed a total of 839 workers who voluntarily participated and completed the safety-culture questionnaires. These workers were from a Taiwanese metal company and its five satellite companies. Three safety-climate factors, namely safety perception, safety communication and safety-management systems, were assessed. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted by developing structural equation modeling to ensure the questionnaire's validity. The influence of workers' backgrounds on the safety climate was identified by using one-way ANOVA. The reliability result of the questionnaire was above the acceptable level. The overall safety-climate score was 4.22 out of a five-point scale for safety perception, 4.23 for safety-management systems and 3.97 for safety communication. The scores indicate a good level of safety climate, with room for improvement in safety communication. Additionally, the influence of workers' backgrounds on the safety climate was confirmed. Based on the validity test, it was also found that the questionnaire could be improved by reconstructing its questions in its development process in order to increase the safety-climate model's reliability and validity, as well as its model fit.

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Section: Safety Culture and Safety Climate Assessmentmentioning

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Safety-Culture Exploration in Taiwan’s Metal Industries: Identifying the Workers’ Background Influence on Safety Climate

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“…Management commitment is a dimension recognized in the vast majority of safety climate research [19,20], and contained six questions. Safety regulations covered the perception and attitudes of employees to safety rules, compliance, or breaches of regulations.…”

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The Spillover Effects on Employees’ Life of Construction Enterprises’ Safety Climate

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Abstract:Organizational safety climate will produce spillover effects and thus affect the individuals' performance in their family life. As a mainstay industry in many countries, the construction industry has a considerable number of employees and the research on the spillover effects from the safety climate of construction enterprises has important theoretical and practical significance to improve the safety behavior of construction employees in their family life. In this study, we thoroughly reviewed the literature to identify the dimensions of the safety climate spillover, obtain empirical data of the construction employees through a questionnaire survey, and use the data analysis method to study the spillover effects of the safety climate of the construction enterprises from the perspective of work-family integration, and reveal its influence mechanism. This study developed a questionnaire to measure the safety climate spillover of the construction enterprises including two dimensions, namely values and behaviors, with nine measured items. Management commitment and safety attitude in the safety climate were positively related to the spillover, and management commitment had the greatest impact on the spillover, while the other components were not significantly related to the spillover. The two forms of spillover, values and behaviors, were mutually influential, and the safety climate had a more significant impact on the values. This paper contributes to the current safety research by developing a factor structure of spillover effects of the safety climate on the lives of construction employees, thus providing a more profound interpretation of this crucial construct in the safety research domain. The spillover effects of the safety climate's measurement questionnaire serve as an important tool for spillover among construction enterprises. Findings can facilitate improvement in both theories and practices related to the spillover effects of the safety climate on the lives of employees. This paper studies the spillover effects of construction enterprises' safety climate, to reveal its influencing mechanism, and can thus provide theoretical guidance for preventing safety accidents in employees' life.

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“…The validity of BBNs in supporting the modelling of safety culture and the evaluation of potential strategies for safety improvement has been demonstrate by Zhou et al (2008) when they proposed a Bayesian Network (BN) based model aimed at establishing a probabilistic relational network among causal factors, including safety climate factors and personal experience that were thought to have an influence on human behaviour pertinent to construction safety. Zhou et al (2008) study used the data coming from a survey involving more than 4700 employees at a large construction firm to collect the data to feed the network.…”

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“…Zhou et al (2008) study used the data coming from a survey involving more than 4700 employees at a large construction firm to collect the data to feed the network. The BBN was built around the categories used in the survey based on theoretical models previously developed about the factors affecting safety climate.…”

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“…Examples can be found in the analysis of the influence that safety culture may have on the occurrence of at risk behaviours and on injury rate in workplaces (De Ambroggi et al, 2008;Zhou et al, 2008), or in the increasing number of models proposed in literature to integrate human and organisational risk factors in Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) (Mohaghegh, Kazemi & Mosleh, 2009;, Trucco et al 2008a). …”

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A method to identify strategies for the improvement of human safety behavior by considering safety climate and personal experience

Cited by 204 publications

References 27 publications

Safety-Culture Exploration in Taiwan’s Metal Industries: Identifying the Workers’ Background Influence on Safety Climate

Safety-Culture Exploration in Taiwan’s Metal Industries: Identifying the Workers’ Background Influence on Safety Climate

The Spillover Effects on Employees’ Life of Construction Enterprises’ Safety Climate

BN Applications in Operational Risk Analysis: Scope, Limitations and Methodological Requirements

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