Safety climate and culture: Integrating psychological and systems perspectives.

Abstract

Safety climate research has reached a mature stage of development, with a number of meta-analyses demonstrating the link between safety climate and safety outcomes. More recently, there has been interest from systems theorists in integrating the concept of safety culture and to a lesser extent, safety climate into systems-based models of organizational safety. Such models represent a theoretical and practical development of the safety climate concept by positioning climate as part of a dynamic work system in which perceptions of safety act to constrain and shape employee behavior. We propose safety climate and safety culture constitute part of the enabling capitals through which organizations build safety capability. We discuss how organizations can deploy different configurations of enabling capital to exert control over work systems and maintain safe and productive performance. We outline 4 key strategies through which organizations to reconcile the system control problems of promotion versus prevention, and stability versus flexibility. (PsycINFO Database Record

Exploring patterns of multiple climates and their effects on safety performance at the department level

“…Relevant syntheses of studies concerning the effect of safety climates have been reported in reviews and meta-analyses (e.g. Beus, McCord, & Zohar, 2016;Burke & Signal, 2010;Casey, Griffin, Flatau Harrison, & Neal, 2017;Christian et al, 2009;Clarke, 2006Clarke, , 2010Cornelissen, Van Hoof, & De Jong, 2017;Glendon, 2008;Griffin & Curcuruto, 2016;Guldenmund, 2000;Jiang et al, 2019;Nahrgang, Morgeson, & Hofmann, 2011;Schonfeld & Chang, 2017). Nevertheless, those meta-analytic studies and reviews reveal that many issues remain unexplored.…”

BREXIT and the Implications of Food Safety Cultural Compliance in the Food Manufacturing Sector

“…However, there was little detail on employee involvement in the development of a company's strategy and there was a clear inference that a good food safety strategy is aimed at avoiding prosecution and jeopardising key accounts rather than energising the company culture with its associated benefits, such as enhanced morale, reduced non-compliance and the generation of innovative solutions as supported by Casey., et al [33]. This is indicated by the statement below:…”

“…Furthermore, there equally appears to be additional mixed perceptions that an organisation's 'safety climate' addresses issues associated with employee attitudes towards safety. Whilst safety culture is occupied with employees' prevailing values within the organisation management need to recognise that the so-called three labels, namely safety culture, food safety culture and safety climate, collectively establish an organisation's holistic culture [33]. To treat them as separate entities is folly, as one need only refer to the media in repeatedly covering food safety accidents and incidents.…”

“…Whilst this was evident, the majority of training was delivered in-house via HR trainers and such courses in the main were not accredited and did not exploit the benefits of sourcing external training to share best practice and training pedagogies [59]. In addition, much of the training involved procedural and food safety training but did little to explore 'food safety culture and its importance [33].…”

Reporting of Hazardous Events in Aquaculture Operations – The Significance of Safety Climate

“…The safety climate is of particular interest, as it involves some of the informal aspects of a work community and may provide a glimpse into the safety culture [19]. In this research, safety climate is defined as the shared perceptions regarding safety policies, procedures and practices, and regarding how safety is managed and valued [20,21,22]. Empirically, the study is based on a quantitative questionnaire study, involving 428 sharp end workers in the Norwegian fish farming industry.…”