Safety climate dimensions as predictors for risk behavior

Bosak, Janine; Coetsee, Wilhelm J.; Cullinane, Sarah-Jane

doi:10.1016/j.aap.2013.02.022

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“…productivity or efficiency) in their impact on safety performance. In this sense, Bosak et al (2013) showed that ''employees' risk behavior was negatively related to management commitment to safety and priority of safety and positively related to pressure for production'' (p. 256). In the same vein, Vinodkumar and Bhasi (2010) found that management commitment and safety rules and procedures predicted safety compliance directly whereas safety training and safety communication and feedback predicted safety compliance indirectly.…”

Section: Perceived Risk and Safetymentioning

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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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Section: Perceived Risk and Safetymentioning

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Safety climate, perceived risk, and involvement in safety management

Kouabenan

Ngueutsa

Mbaye³

2015

Safety Science

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“…22 Although safety climate was originally studied as a predictor of behavior and injury in the manufacturing sector, it has since been examined in other industries including retail, health care, petrochemical and chemical, laboratories, food, transportation, and packing plants. 8,21,[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] It has been extensively applied in the construction sector and we build upon our predecessors' work in this area. 18,[34][35][36][37][38] Using the safety climate construct as a theoretical framework, we investigated perceptions of workrelated hazards and potential work organization and safety factors among Hispanic construction workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.…”

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Results of a community-based survey of construction safety climate for Hispanic workers

Marín

Cifuentes

Roelofs

2015

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

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Background: Hispanic construction workers experience high rates of occupational injury, likely influenced by individual, organizational, and social factors. Objectives: To characterize the safety climate of Hispanic construction workers using worker, contractor, and supervisor perceptions of the workplace. Methods: We developed a 40-item interviewer-assisted survey with six safety climate dimensions and administered it in Spanish and English to construction workers, contractors, and supervisors. A safety climate model, comparing responses and assessing contributing factors was created based on survey responses. Results: While contractors and construction supervisors' (n5128) scores were higher, all respondents shared a negative perception of safety climate. Construction workers had statistically significantly lower safety climate scores compared to supervisors and contractors (30.6 vs 46.5%, P,0.05). Safety climate scores were not associated with English language ability or years lived in the United States. Conclusions: We found that Hispanic construction workers in this study experienced a poor safety climate. The Hispanic construction safety climate model we propose can serve as a framework to guide organizational safety interventions and evaluate safety climate improvements.

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“…Organizations with vigorous safety climate have low injury rate because of effective safety climate and management commitment to safety (10). A study done in a chemical industry in South Africa showed the importance of management commitment to safety (11). Most existing researches confirm the association between safety climate and leadership.…”

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Investigation of Safety Climate in an Oil Industry in Summer of 2014

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Background: Safety Climate is an issue that has received much attention in recent years. Evaluation of safety climate in a workplace gives us good information about the safety organization situation. Safety climate is a leading indicator in preventing accidents. Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate safety climate and investigate of association between safety climate and demographic factors in an oil industry in summer of 2014. Materials and Methods:This cross-sectional descriptive-analytical research was conducted in an oil industry during summer of 2014. Sample size was 97 and used the Loughborough University Safety Climate Assessment Toolkit, which assesses safety climate in nine areas. Scoring in each area was done in Likert scale. Data analyzing was done after data collection. Results: Final scoring was done on a scale of one through ten. The highest scores were achieved in personal values (mean score, 8.7 ± 1.36) and lowest scores were achieved on the personal perception of risk (mean score, 5.4 ± 1.26). The mean safety climate score were 6.8. Significant associations were found between safety climate and age (P = 0.01), between age and management's commitment to safety (P = 0.02), and between marital status and regulations and guidelines (P = 0.04). The association of other domains with the age, education, and marital status were not significant (P > 0.05). Conclusions: Based on of this study, management has an important role in creating a positive safety climate. Individual characteristics can influence thee safety climate. Management commitment to safety is an important factor in the success of safety programs.

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Safety climate dimensions as predictors for risk behavior

Cited by 94 publications

References 64 publications

Safety climate, perceived risk, and involvement in safety management

Safety climate, perceived risk, and involvement in safety management

Results of a community-based survey of construction safety climate for Hispanic workers

Investigation of Safety Climate in an Oil Industry in Summer of 2014

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