Another look at safety climate and safety behavior: Deepening the cognitive and social mediator mechanisms

Fugas, C. S.; Silva, Sílvia Agostinho da; Meliá, J.

doi:10.1016/j.aap.2011.08.013

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“…e TPB considers individual and environmental influence and could be used to explain human behaviour in a satisfactory extend. A search of existing literature showed that TPB has been cited more than 10,000 times and successfully applied in various research fields to predict safety-related behaviour such as unsafe driving behaviour [18], green exercise [19], and the relationship between safety climate and unsafe behaviour [10,11].…”

Section: Tpb and Construction Safety Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In small and medium construction groups, frank and frequent safety communication between construction workers and managers could improve safety performance [34]. Friendship network in the construction crews can compensate poor safety climate [35], and social pressure in crews can influence the strength of safety climate [11]. Novice and younger construction workers relied on the communications with their peers to attain safety knowledge [36].…”

Section: Attitudinal Ambivalencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Individually, "not willing to perform safely" can be considered as a decision-making process [8] and can be explained with psychological theories because they address how the mind, perceptions, and beliefs influence safety behaviour. e prevailing theoretical framework of unsafe acts is the eory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) [9], and it has been widely applied to analyse unsafe acts in construction [10,11] and other research fields.…”

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Impact of Attitudinal Ambivalence on Safety Behaviour in Construction

Zou

Luo

2018

Advances in Civil Engineering

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Unsafe acts have been identified as a major factor of construction accidents. e eory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) has been used to explain the factors influencing unsafe behaviour, by establishing the relationship between attitude, intention, and behaviour. However, the existing research on the relationship between safety attitude and safety behaviour could not fully explain the decisionmaking process of unsafe acts, in that the relationship could be mediated by attitudinal ambivalence, which is caused by conflicting information sources and the social network pressure of peer workers. is research examined whether attitudinal ambivalence was a mediating factor, either fully or partially, in the relationship between safety attitude and safety behaviour by expanding the TPB model. Data were collected from questionnaire survey of 228 construction workers. e results showed that attitudinal ambivalence existed as a partial mediating factor in the relationship between safety attitude and safety behaviour. is paper contributed to the body of knowledge on safety management by recognizing the role of attitudinal ambivalence in construction workers and integrated it into the TPB model. is research will be helpful in providing greater understanding of the dynamic and complex decision-making process of unsafe behaviour given multiple information sources and conflicting environments.

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Impact of Attitudinal Ambivalence on Safety Behaviour in Construction

Zou

Luo

2018

Advances in Civil Engineering

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“…Previous studies shown that safety climate, or some of its dimensions, can be related to risk perception [18,20,21], safety management systems [11,22] and, directly or indirectly, to accident rates [8,12,18,[22][23][24] and safety behaviour [20,23,25,26]. Therefore, it is expected that individuals working in companies with a positive safety climate perceives less risk, have a lower probability of suffering injuries, the companies' safety management systems of are more efficient and workers present more positive safety behaviour.…”

Section: Safety Climatementioning

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“…Supervisor discretion in interpreting and implementing company's policies and procedures can result into group variations. However, also co-workers' norms can lead to differences in the safety climate among groups [10,26,30]. Co-workers provide information to other workers, as well as, they can have influence on safety behaviour [10].…”

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Multilevel model of safety climate for furniture industries

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Arezes

Leão

2015

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BACKGROUND:Furniture companies can analyse their safety status using quantitative measures. However, the data needed are not always available or the number of accidents is under-reported. Safety climate scales can be an alternative. However, there are no validated Portuguese scales that contemplate the specificity of the furniture sector. OBJECTIVE:The current study aims to develop and to validate an instrument to measure the safety climate in Portuguese furniture industries, using a multilevel structure. METHODS:The Safety Climate in Wood Industries (SCWI) was developed and applied to the safety climate analysis, including three different scales: organizational, group and individual. A multilevel exploratory factor analysis was performed to analyse the factorial structure. The companies' safety conditions were also analysed. RESULTS:Different factorial structures were found at between and within levels. In general, results show the presence of a group level safety climate. Scores of safety climate were directly and positively related to companies' safety conditions, being the organizational scale the one that most reflects the actual safety conditions. CONCLUSIONS: SCWI allows identifying different safety climates between groups of the same furniture company and it seems to reflect their safety conditions. The study also emphasized the need of a multilevel analysis of the instrument.

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An analysis on the relationship between safety awareness and safety behaviors of healthcare professionals, Ankara/Turkey

Uzuntarla

Küçükali

Uzuntarla³

2020

Journal of Occupational Health

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Employees spend a significant part of their time in workplaces. Therefore, occupation-related tasks need to be at a level that will not be harmful to health of the employees and the work should be performed in a safe environment. 1 However, occupational accidents and occupational diseases, especially in the underdeveloped and developing countries, are still high. This leads to death, disability, economic and social loss, and thus attention on the importance of occupational health and safety. 2 Despite the numerous legal regulations governing the prevention of occupational accidents within the context of occupational health and safety, occupational accidents are still high. This has shown that it is not enough to consider this issue only from a technical point of view, but individuals being most important factor in occupational accidents should also be taken into consideration. The fact that approximately 90% of occupational accidents are caused by unsafe behaviors of employees highlights the importance of 'safety culture', regarded as a behavioral regulator. 3-5

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Another look at safety climate and safety behavior: Deepening the cognitive and social mediator mechanisms

Cited by 176 publications

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Impact of Attitudinal Ambivalence on Safety Behaviour in Construction

Impact of Attitudinal Ambivalence on Safety Behaviour in Construction

Multilevel model of safety climate for furniture industries

An analysis on the relationship between safety awareness and safety behaviors of healthcare professionals, Ankara/Turkey

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