Safety climate and safety performance among construction workers in Hong Kong

Siu, Oi Ling; Phillips, David; Leung, Tat Wing

doi:10.1016/s0001-4575(03)00016-2

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“…The findings complement previous ones that found a negative association between job experience and accident frequency (e.g., Fabiano et al [19], Kecojevic, et al [32], Siu et al [34], Frone [35], and Salminen [56,57]), and positive association between experience and job satisfaction (e.g., Oshagbemi [28]). It also supports studies that showed that workers with the requisite knowledge of safe work behaviours tend to comply with their organizationsʼ safety management policies and subsequently record fewer accidents (e.g., Elangovan, Mohammed and Mohan [58] and Neal, Griffin and Hart [59]).…”

Section: Safety Implications and Directions For Further Studiessupporting

confidence: 89%

“…Research on work experience and accident frequency is rather consistent with a few contradictory findings. While a substantial body of research found that length of job experience was related to decreased accident rates (e.g., Fabiano et al [19], Barkan, Zohar and Erev [31], Kecojevic, Komljenovic, Groves, et al [32], Wu, Liu and Lu [33], Siu, Phillips and Leung [34]), a few studies found experience to be positively related to accident frequency (e.g., Hansen [18] and Frone [35]). The principal reason for this observation was the close association between experience and job requirements which entail greater skill requirements, responsibility and exposure to greater accident risk.…”

Section: Work Experience In the Accident And Safety Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

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Organizational Safety Climate and Work Experience

Gyekye

Salminen

2010

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

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Section: Safety Implications and Directions For Further Studiessupporting

confidence: 89%

Section: Work Experience In the Accident And Safety Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Organizational Safety Climate and Work Experience

Gyekye

Salminen

2010

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

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“…In this motivated and healthy state, employees are less likely to experience adverse safety outcomes. Research has indeed found that psychological strain mediates the relationship between safety climate and safety outcomes such as errors and accident rates (Fogarty, 2005;Siu et al, 2004). Thus, we propose that burnout and engagement will mediate the relationship between job demands and resources and safety outcomes.…”

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confidence: 68%

Safety at work: A meta-analytic investigation of the link between job demands, job resources, burnout, engagement, and safety outcomes.

Nahrgang¹,

Morgeson²,

Hofmann³

2011

Journal of Applied Psychology

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In this article, we develop and meta-analytically test the relationship between job demands and resources and burnout, engagement, and safety outcomes in the workplace. In a meta-analysis of 203 independent samples (N ϭ 186,440), we found support for a health impairment process and for a motivational process as mechanisms through which job demands and resources relate to safety outcomes. In particular, we found that job demands such as risks and hazards and complexity impair employees' health and positively relate to burnout. Likewise, we found support for job resources such as knowledge, autonomy, and a supportive environment motivating employees and positively relating to engagement. Job demands were found to hinder an employee with a negative relationship to engagement, whereas job resources were found to negatively relate to burnout. Finally, we found that burnout was negatively related to working safely but that engagement motivated employees and was positively related to working safely. Across industries, risks and hazards was the most consistent job demand and a supportive environment was the most consistent job resource in terms of explaining variance in burnout, engagement, and safety outcomes. The type of job demand that explained the most variance differed by industry, whereas a supportive environment remained consistent in explaining the most variance in all industries.

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“…), Clarke (2006a) reported that attitudes toward safety did not significantly predict safety performance, whereas perceptions of safety predicted such performance. Moreover, it seems that quantitative indices, such as accident rates, are only weakly linked to safety climate (Siu et al, 2004;Zohar, 2000). In this line, several studies have established a significant link between safety climate and number of self-reported accidents by participants (Hayes et al, 1998), and between safety climate and attitudes about safety (participation and rule-following), although the link between accident frequency and safety climate is sometimes rather weak (Clarke, 2006b;Siu et al, 2004;Zohar, 2000).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, it seems that quantitative indices, such as accident rates, are only weakly linked to safety climate (Siu et al, 2004;Zohar, 2000). In this line, several studies have established a significant link between safety climate and number of self-reported accidents by participants (Hayes et al, 1998), and between safety climate and attitudes about safety (participation and rule-following), although the link between accident frequency and safety climate is sometimes rather weak (Clarke, 2006b;Siu et al, 2004;Zohar, 2000). Finally, Huang et al (2014) showed that only employee safety climate perceptions (and not that of supervisor's) significantly predicted self-reported safety behavior (directly) and objective injury outcomes (indirectly).…”

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Safety climate, perceived risk, and involvement in safety management

Kouabenan

Ngueutsa

Mbaye³

2015

Safety Science

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a b s t r a c tThis article examines the relationship between safety climate, risk perception and involvement in safety management by first-line managers (FLM). Sixty-three FLMs from two French nuclear plants answered a questionnaire measuring perceived workplace safety climate, perceived risk, and involvement in safety management. We hypothesized that a positive perception of safety climate would promote substantial involvement in safety management, and that this effect would be stronger than the perceived-risk effect. We also expected that safety climate dimensions would have a different impact on involvement in safety management. Especially, we expected climate dimensions dealing with safety-related exchanges between managers and their supervisees to be more related to FLMs' involvement in safety management. As expected, perceived risk, as well as safety climate, was related to FLMs' involvement in safety management: the more they perceived risks as probable and serious for their supervisees, the more involved they got in safety management. Similarly, FLMs who perceived a good safety climate in their company reported getting more involved in safety management than did FLMs who perceived a poor safety climate. Moreover, the results showed that safety climate was the key variable because it completely mediated the effect of perceived risk on involvement in safety management. Another important result showed that immediate supervisor encouragement was more influential than senior management views on safety. Furthermore, the fact of being called upon by supervisees on safety issues prompted the FLMs to be more involved in safety management. Possible avenues for improving the involvement of FLMs in safety management are suggested.

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Safety climate and safety performance among construction workers in Hong Kong

Cited by 328 publications

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Organizational Safety Climate and Work Experience

Organizational Safety Climate and Work Experience

Safety at work: A meta-analytic investigation of the link between job demands, job resources, burnout, engagement, and safety outcomes.

Safety climate, perceived risk, and involvement in safety management

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