The safety climate and its relationship to safety practices, safety of the work environment and occupational accidents in eight wood-processing companies

Varonen, Unto; Mattila, Markku

doi:10.1016/s0001-4575(99)00129-3

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“…This is in accordance to the findings of a previous study, where poor safety climate perceptions of workers were related to workers' unsafe behaviors and to lack of compliance with safety rules [13]. Consistent with those findings, many researchers found that poor safety climate was associated with unsafe behavior, and on a group-level related to work-related accidents [41]. Moreover, safety climate was considered as one way of identifying characteristics that might distinguish between employees with high or low injury rates [20].…”

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confidence: 92%

“…It reflects individuals'/groups' values as well as attitudes and perceptions of safety [13]. From series of studies, it was evident that it is necessary to scientifically grasp the idea of and improve the workers' safety climate in order to develop a safe organization [40,41].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some studies have evaluated safety climate in relation to safety levels in the workplace, judgment of risk among employees [42], and accident rates [41,43]. A number of studies have also focused on the relation between healthcare workers' perceptions of their organization's prevention programs and compliance with universal precautions [44].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Non-Fatal Occupational Injuries and Safety Climate: A Cross-Sectional Study of Construction Building Workers in Mit-Ghamr City, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt

Abbas¹,

Zalat²,

Ghareeb³

2013

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Background: Construction is a dangerous industry, with high rates of fatal and non-fatal injuries. Although, safety climate has been linked with safety performance and work-related accidents, yet it is scarcely studied and considered in injury prevention programs in developing countries. So, the objectives of this study are to find out the magnitude, pattern and risk factors of non-fatal occupational injuries among a sample of construction building workers and to explore the level of safety climate and its relationship with occupational injuries. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 91 workers, who fulfilled the inclusion criteria, in 18 large construction sites in Mit-Ghamr city, Dakahlia Governorate. Data about socio-demographic and occupational characteristics, description of occupational injuries, and work-related and behavioral risk factors were collected using a structured questionnaire. Results: Occupational injuries in the past 12 months were reported by 46.2% of workers. The most common body parts injured were upper and lower limbs (31.0% and 26.2%). The majority of injuries were cuts/lacerations (30.9%) and contusions (28.6%). Falls (47.6%) and injuries by manual tools (23.8%) were the main causes of injuries. The majority of injured workers (90.5%) reported complete recovery after the most serious injury. The average of working days was lost per year due to occupational injuries (18.6 ± 7.8 days/year). None of the injured workers reported receiving sufficient first-aid treatment at worksite or filling an accident notification form. Extended working hours, poor safety climate, short duration of work, job dissatisfaction, young age, and job stress were significant risk factors of occupational injuries. Conclusion: Non-fatal occupational injuries are common among this sample of construction workers with significant relation to extended working hours and poor safety climate and other risk factors. So, it is important to build upon this research in order to help develop successful policies to prevent work-related injuries and promote safer work practices for construction building workers.

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Non-Fatal Occupational Injuries and Safety Climate: A Cross-Sectional Study of Construction Building Workers in Mit-Ghamr City, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt

Abbas¹,

Zalat²,

Ghareeb³

2013

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“…A strong organizational "safety first" philosophy impacts members' beliefs and attitudes towards product safety, and consequently, leads to its high priority and adoption of processes and practices that support the organization's commitment to product safety. Moreover, this espousal of occupational health and safety culture has been linked to safer work behaviors (Hofmann & Stetzer, 1996;Varon & Mattila, 2000) and fewer employee injuries (Barling et al, 2002;Hofmann & Stetzer, 1996;Mearns et al, 2003;Zohar, 1980). The literature on product safety culture is still sparse.…”

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The impact of organizational culture on Concurrent Engineering, Design-for-Safety, and product safety performance

Zhu

Zedtwitz

Assimakopoulos

et al. 2016

International Journal of Production Economics

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Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Design-for-Safety (DFS), and product safety performance. We propose that the underlying assumption of safety first affects the espoused values (group level product safety culture at NPD) and artefacts of organizational culture (Concurrent Engineering and Design-for-Safety); espoused value influences artefacts; and artefacts impact product safety performance. These hypotheses are tested by structural analyses of 255 survey responses collected from 126 firms in the juvenile product sector. While management commitment to safety, product safety culture, andDesign-for-Safety are significant product safety predictors, as expected, Concurrent Engineering has no significant direct effect on product safety. We discuss the implications of these findings for the field of product safety.

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“…In brief, safety climate can be interpreted as a ''snapshot'' of the safety culture at a given time. It has been found in previous studies that safety practice/performance of an organization is positively correlated to the safety culture of that organization (Kao, Stewart, & Lee, 2009;Niskanen, 1994;Varonen & Mattila, 2000), which explains the sheer amount of literature on safety culture and safety climate in various domains.…”

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Safety Climate of Ab-Initio Flying Training Organizations: The Case of an Australian Tertiary (Collegiate) Aviation Program

Gao¹,

Rajendran²

2017

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

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A healthy safety culture is essential to the safe operation of any aviation organization, including flight schools. This study aimed to assess the safety climate of an Australian tertiary (collegiate) aviation program using a self-constructed instrument. Factor analysis of the instrument identified four safety themes, which are Safety Reporting Culture, Safety Reporting Procedure, Organizational Culture and Practice, and General Safety Knowledge. The responses of student pilots suggested that the overall safety climate of the subject flight training academy was healthy at the time of the survey. Further analyses found that perceptions of students of different year groups on Reporting Culture and Organizational Culture and Practices were significantly different from each other, with the first-year students responding more positively. Besides addressing the safety climate of the subject flight training academy, this study also provided a template and a benchmark for other tertiary (collegiate) aviation programs to assess their own safety climate.

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The safety climate and its relationship to safety practices, safety of the work environment and occupational accidents in eight wood-processing companies

Cited by 211 publications

References 8 publications

Non-Fatal Occupational Injuries and Safety Climate: A Cross-Sectional Study of Construction Building Workers in Mit-Ghamr City, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt

Non-Fatal Occupational Injuries and Safety Climate: A Cross-Sectional Study of Construction Building Workers in Mit-Ghamr City, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt

The impact of organizational culture on Concurrent Engineering, Design-for-Safety, and product safety performance

Safety Climate of Ab-Initio Flying Training Organizations: The Case of an Australian Tertiary (Collegiate) Aviation Program

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