The impact of prevention measures and organisational factors on occupational injuries

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Multilevel model of safety climate for furniture industries

“…8,12,18,[22][23][24]. Accordingly, it is likely that the safety condition analysis does not entirely reflect all companies' risk factors that can lead to accidents, or to some unsafe acts, which could be also related to companies' safety climate.…”

“…[8], Arocena et al [12], Tharaldsen et al [18], Varonen & Mattila [22] and Nielsen et al [24]). Moreover, they need to comply with more rules and safety procedures than others workers, being also more likely to not meet any of them.…”

“…However, it is important to note that there is still a longstanding discussion in relation to its concept, and there is no apparently consensus in the literature, particularly in relation to the distinction between the concept of safety culture and safety climate, being even possible to found some authors that used both concepts as a single construct (e.g. Arocena et al [12] and Håvold [13]). …”

“…Previous studies shown that safety climate, or some of its dimensions, can be related to risk perception [18,20,21], safety management systems [11,22] and, directly or indirectly, to accident rates [8,12,18,[22][23][24] and safety behaviour [20,23,25,26]. Therefore, it is expected that individuals working in companies with a positive safety climate perceives less risk, have a lower probability of suffering injuries, the companies' safety management systems of are more efficient and workers present more positive safety behaviour.…”

Investigation of Occupational Accidents Induce Sever Injury in Fars, Iran from 2005 to 2007

“…Data obtained from the accidents does not automatically prevent the occurrence of events; therefore the application of preventive measures within system safety can prevent accidents from occurring. So the implementation of preventive measures requires detailed analysis of accidents [12]. According to the Iran Social Security Organization statistics, occupational accidents in 2008 were 23,023 cases which caused damage to 22,134 workers and loss of 109,023 workdays.…”