Safety, incentives, and the reporting of work‐related injuries among union carpenters: “You're pretty much screwed if you get hurt at work”

Lipscomb, Hester J.; Nolan, James J.; Patterson, Dennis; Sticca, Vince; Myers, Daniel J.

doi:10.1002/ajim.22128

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“…Lipscomb et al looked at the job consequences of injury reporting among carpenters and also found an atmosphere of intimidation on construction sites. 47 In addition to nonretaliation for hazard reporting, we suggest that coworker and supervisor social support play a critical role in safety climate for Hispanic construction workers. Previous research found that Hispanic construction workers consistently identified an absence of mutually respectful attitudes and behaviors as an impediment to safety in construction.…”

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

Marín

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Roelofs

2015

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

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“…48,49 For example, programs that provide incentives to reduce reporting of injuries may have the unintended consequence of minimizing reporting without altering actual injury rates, and also shift the burden of responsibility for injury reduction to individual workers without attending to needed multi-level supports in the work environment. 50 …”

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Integration of Health Protection and Health Promotion

Sorensen

McLellan

Dennerlein

et al. 2013

Journal of Occupational &Amp; Environmental Medicine

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Objective To offer a definition of an “integrated” approach to worker health and operationalize this definition using indicators of the extent to which integrated efforts are implemented in an organization. Methods Guided by the question, “How will we know it when we see it?” we reviewed relevant literature to identify available definitions and metrics, and used a modified-Delphi process to review and refine indicators and measures of integrated approaches. Results A definition of integrated approaches to worker health is proposed and accompanied by indicators and measures that may be used by researchers, employers and workers. Conclusions A shared understanding of what is meant by integrated approaches to protect and promote worker health has the potential to improve dialogue among researchers and facilitate the research-to-practice process.

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“…To combat this, some employers have implemented safety incentive programs, such as those that use injury-based safety performance metrics to evaluate overall worksite safety and reward workers. However, these lagging indicator-based programs may discriminate against injured workers (2) and may reduce injury reporting (3, 4). …”

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Improving safety climate through a communication and recognition program for construction: a mixed methods study

Sparer¹,

Catalano²,

Herrick³

et al. 2016

Scand J Work Environ Health

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Objectives This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a safety communication and recognition program (B-SAFE), designed to encourage improvement of physical working conditions and hazard reduction in construction. Methods A matched pair cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted on eight worksites (four received the B-SAFE intervention, four served as control sites) for approximately five months per site. Pre- and post-exposure worker surveys were collected at all sites (N=615, pre-exposure response rate of 74%, post-exposure response rate of 88%). Multi-level mixed-effect regression models evaluated the effect of B-SAFE on safety climate as assessed from surveys. Focus groups (N=6–8 workers/site) were conducted following data collection. Transcripts were coded and analyzed for thematic content using Atlas.ti (version 6). Results The mean safety climate score at intervention sites, as measured on a 0–50 point scale, increased 0.5 points (1%) between pre- and post-B-SAFE exposure, compared to control sites that decreased 0.8 points (1.6%). The intervention effect size was 1.64 (3.28%) (P-value=0.01) when adjusted for month the worker started on-site, total length of time on-site, as well as individual characteristics (trade, title, age, and race/ethnicity). At intervention sites, workers noted increased levels of safety awareness, communication, and teamwork compared to control sites. Conclusions B-SAFE led to many positive changes, including an improvement in safety climate, awareness, teambuilding, and communication. B-SAFE was a simple intervention that engaged workers through effective communication infrastructures and had a significant, positive effect on worksite safety.

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Safety, incentives, and the reporting of work‐related injuries among union carpenters: “You're pretty much screwed if you get hurt at work”

Cited by 45 publications

References 27 publications

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

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

Integration of Health Protection and Health Promotion

Improving safety climate through a communication and recognition program for construction: a mixed methods study

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