Leadership training as an occupational health intervention: Improved safety and sustained productivity

Schwarz, Ulrica von Thiele; Hasson, Henna; Tafvelin, Susanne

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2015.07.020

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“…Eklof and Hagberg 46 and Eklof et al, 47 Three studies described evaluation research to explore the effectiveness of leadership training for mid-level managers and supervisors in improving workplace safety-related outcomes. 49,50,67 The three studies share the same basic premise that safety policies…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effectiveness of safety training interventions for supervisors: A systematic review and narrative synthesis

Sinelnikov

Bixler

Kolosh

2020

American J Industrial Med

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A wealth of research demonstrates that work unit supervisors serve a critical function in protecting the safety and health of workers. A systematic review examined the effectiveness of workplace safety training interventions intended for various supervisor populations published from 2000 to 2019. A search of seven electronic databases was supplemented with hand searches from the reference lists of identified publications, relevant scientific journals, and the gray literature. This review included an assessment of the methodological quality using a modified version of the Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative Studies. A total of 22 peer‐reviewed studies met a set of inclusion criteria and were subsequently assessed for methodological quality. Training interventions were grouped into five topical domains: ergonomics, leadership, supervisor‐worker interaction, injury, and disability management, and general safety education. Consistent evidence was found for the effectiveness of supervisory training interventions across several outcome measures. To our knowledge, this is the first study to synthesize the literature on supervisory training interventions in the area of occupational safety. While the results are encouraging, they must be viewed with caution due to the fact that the methodological rigor of the reviewed studies was low.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Effectiveness of safety training interventions for supervisors: A systematic review and narrative synthesis

Sinelnikov

Bixler

Kolosh

2020

American J Industrial Med

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“…The Cronbach’s alphas from the present study indicated excellent reliability for transformational leadership (α=0.96) and passive-avoidant leadership (α=0.86), and good reliability for transactional leadership (α=0.76). The validity of the MLQ is supported by studies demonstrating its associations and prediction of important organizational outcomes including change in practice (Leithwood & Jantzi, 2006), attitudes toward EBIs and capacity to train providers and implement EBIs (Aarons, 2006; Bonham, Sommerfeld, Willging, & Aarons, 2014), organizational culture (Aarons, Ehrhart, Farahnak, Sklar, & Horowitz, In press), knowledge sharing (Chen & Barnes, 2006), employee creativity (Dhar, 2015; Jyoti & Dev, 2015), innovation performance (Saad & Mazzarol, 2014), enhanced EBI receptivity, ongoing use, and ability to implement and sustain EBIs (Stetler, Ritchie, Rycroft-Malone, Schultz, & Charns, 2009), organizational climate expectations (von Thiele Schwarz, Hasson, & Tafvelin, 2016), and patient and consumer outcomes (Corrigan, Lickey, Campion, & Rashid, 2000; Wong & Giallonardo, 2015). Home visitors indicated the extent to which their supervisor exhibited specific behaviors on a 5 point Likert-type scale from “Not at all” to “To a very great extent.” Individual leadership scores were computed as item averages.…”

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The Roles of System and Organizational Leadership in System-Wide Evidence-Based Intervention Sustainment: A Mixed-Method Study

Aarons

Green

Trott

et al. 2016

Adm Policy Ment Health

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If evidence-based interventions (EBIs) are not sustained, investments are wasted and public health impact is limited. Leadership has been suggested as a key determinant of implementation and sustainment; however, little empirical work has examined this factor. This mixed-methods study framed using the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainment (EPIS) conceptual framework examines leadership in both the outer service system context and inner organizational context in eleven system-wide implementations of the same EBI across two U.S. states and 87 counties. Quantitative data at the outer context (i.e., system) and inner context (i.e., team) levels demonstrated that leadership predicted future sustainment and differentiated between sites with full, partial, or no sustainment. In the outer context positive sustainment leadership was characterized as establishing a project’s mission and vision, early and continued planning for sustainment, realistic project plans, and having alternative strategies for project survival. Inner context frontline transformational leadership predicted sustainment while passive-avoidant leadership predicted non-sustainment. Qualitative results found that sustainment was associated with outer context leadership characterized by engagement in ongoing supportive EBI championing, marketing to stakeholders; persevering in these activities; taking action to institutionalize the EBI with funding, contracting, and system improvement plans; and fostering ongoing collaboration between stakeholders at state and county, and community stakeholder levels. For frontline leadership the most important activities included championing the EBI and providing practical support for service providers. There was both convergence and expansion that identified unique contributions of the quantitative and qualitative methods. Greater attention to leadership in both the outer system and inner organizational contexts is warranted to enhance EBI implementation and sustainment.

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“…They have also shown that employees who report that their leaders inconsistently support safety report poorer safety climate perceptions [27]. The safety intervention research literature demonstrates that improving safety leadership results in improvements in safety climate perceptions [28][29][30]. To our knowledge, there is no literature evaluating the relationship between health-promoting leadership and health climate; however, we would expect to observe similar relationships.…”

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Total Worker Health Leadership and Business Strategies Are Related to Safety and Health Climates in Small Business

Schwatka

Dally

Tenney

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Total Worker Health® (TWH) business strategies and employee perceptions of leadership commitment and safety and health climates. Using data from 53 small enterprises and 1271 of their workers collected as part of the Small + Safe + Well (SSWell) Study, we confirm the primacy of the relationship between leadership commitment to safety and workplace safety climate. After accounting for leadership commitment to safety, business-reported policies and practices that promote the health, safety, and well-being of workers (i.e., TWH strategies) were no longer related to safety climate. In contrast, the relationship between TWH strategies and health climate were significantly associated with the level of small business leadership commitment to worksite wellness. Relatedly, our results demonstrate that leadership is a common correlate to both safety climate and health climate. Future research should investigate integrated TWH leadership development strategies as a means of simultaneously improving safety and health climates.

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Leadership training as an occupational health intervention: Improved safety and sustained productivity

Cited by 75 publications

References 58 publications

Effectiveness of safety training interventions for supervisors: A systematic review and narrative synthesis

Effectiveness of safety training interventions for supervisors: A systematic review and narrative synthesis

The Roles of System and Organizational Leadership in System-Wide Evidence-Based Intervention Sustainment: A Mixed-Method Study

Total Worker Health Leadership and Business Strategies Are Related to Safety and Health Climates in Small Business

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