Validating a Safety Climate Model in Metal Processing Industries: A Replication Study

Braunger, Paul; Frank, Hermann; Korunka, Christian; Lueger, Manfred; Kubicek, Bettina

doi:10.1080/10803548.2013.11076973

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“…Concerning the descriptive results among German healthcare professionals working in acute care, our data showed lower safety participation scores compared with the safety compliance scores. These results are similar to other studies that have used the same instrument [26,28]. The original instrument developed and published by Neal et al distinguished between safety activities that are part of the job (safety compliance) and activities that support the broader environmental context (safety participation) [22].…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Kaleth and colleagues tested a Persian safety performance scale among Iranian employees of a petrochemical complex and reported a high internal consistency [25]. Similar results were reported by Braunger and colleagues, who tested the instrument as well as the model in Austria [26]. Gracia and colleagues underline their findings for the Spanish setting [27].…”

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confidence: 54%

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Safety Performance of Healthcare Professionals: Validation and Use of the Adapted Workplace Health and Safety Instrument

Heier

Gambashidze

Hammerschmidt

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Improving patient safety and reducing occupational accidents are two of the main challenges in healthcare. Instruments to measure safety performance and occupational safety are rare. This study aimed to prepare and validate a German version of the adapted workplace health and safety instrument to assess the safety performance of healthcare professionals. Overall, 168 healthcare professionals participated in this explorative cross-sectional study. The instrument consists of 16 items related to safety performance in four dimensions. We calculated mean values and standard deviations for each individual item and those of the four dimensions of the instrument. We evaluated internal consistency and construct validity, explored the dimensionality of the instrument through exploratory factor analysis, and tested how our data fit with the original model with confirmatory factor analysis. Among the participants, 73.8% were nurses and nurses in training, with the majority of the sample being female (71.9%) and younger than 30 (52.5%). Cronbach’s alpha for all four dimensions was >0.7. All items were loaded on factors according to the original theoretical model. Confirmatory factor analysis showed good model fit (normed χ²/df = 1.43 (≤2.5), root mean square error of approximation = 0.06 (≤0.07), goodness of fit index = 0.90 (>0.90), comparative fit index = 0.95 (≥0.90), and Tucker–Lewis index = 0.93 (>0.90). The German version of the instrument demonstrated acceptable properties and was a good fit to the original theoretical model, allowing measurement of healthcare professionals’ safety knowledge, motivation, compliance, and participation.

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confidence: 54%

Safety Performance of Healthcare Professionals: Validation and Use of the Adapted Workplace Health and Safety Instrument

Heier

Gambashidze

Hammerschmidt

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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“…So far, the effect of training on safety personnel has been investigated in many studies, and it has been confirmed that training improves safety behavior [55][56][57][58][59] and reduces accidents [60][61][62][63]. Accident experience is another factor affecting the perception of risk, which was placed in the first group in this study.…”

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confidence: 56%

Causal Analysis of Safety Risk Perception of Iranian Coal Mining Workers Using Fuzzy Delphi and DEMATEL

Hannani,

Bascompta,

Sabzevar

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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Underground coal mines, one of the most dangerous work environments, have experienced accidents and disasters. One of the main reasons for those unsafe events is the workers’ poor understanding of the hazards and risks of working in this work environment. Therefore, the present study aims to identify factors affecting the safety risk perception of underground coal mine workers in Iran and investigate their cause-and-effect relationships. By reviewing the literature, 40 variables were identified in five categories: individual, organizational, environmental, task, and external factors. The identified variables were ranked according to the expert group’s opinion in the form of a fuzzy Delphi study regarding their effects on risk perception. In the next step, 23 variables were selected to investigate the cause-and-effect relationships using the DEMATEL method. The study’s findings showed that organizational factors and some individual factors play a fundamental role in workers’ risk perception. The variables of safety culture, safety management style, and safety attitude had the most significant impact, and the variables of personal protective equipment and risk aversion had the smallest impact on workers’ risk perception. The present study’s findings can be used as a guideline to provide effective solutions for managers and workers in improving safety risk perception, subsequently reducing unsafe behaviors and increasing the safety status of underground coal mines.

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“…Furthermore, safety climate research has consistently presented a conceptual focus on collective phenomena, including both a focus on group and organizational level analyses (Griffin and Curcuruto, 2016). However, the present research, as the original study of Griffin and Neal (2000) and others that used their approach (i.e., Braunger et al, 2013) adopted an individual level to consider safety climate. In fact, our evidences can be compared with their work and a more-broad literature, focused on social-exchange mechanisms, entailed by LMX, which are typically related on the individual perception of the employees’ personal relationships with the organization and supervisors.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this context, a motivated worker is willing to put an extra effort for safety and attributes a special value to safety behaviors (Neal and Griffin, 2006). On the other hand, safety knowledge is presented as the extent to which employees have a clear idea of safety processes and correct procedures and behaviors (Braunger et al, 2013). Griffin and Neal (2000) considered safety knowledge and motivation (Mariani et al, 2015) determinants of safety performance and mediators between safety climate and safety performance too.…”

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Can Leader–Member Exchange Contribute to Safety Performance in An Italian Warehouse?

et al. 2017

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Introduction: The research considers safety climate in a warehouse and wants to analyze the Leader–Member Exchange (LMX) role in respect to safety performance. Griffin and Neal’s safety model was adopted and Leader-Member Exchange was inserted as moderator in the relationships between safety climate and proximal antecedents (motivation and knowledge) of safety performance constructs (compliance and participation).Materials and Methods: Survey data were collected from a sample of 133 full-time employees in an Italian warehouse. The statistical framework of Hayes (2013) was adopted for moderated mediation analysis.Results: Proximal antecedents partially mediated the relationship between Safety climate and safety participation, but not safety compliance. Moreover, the results from the moderation analysis showed that the Leader–Member Exchange moderated the influence of safety climate on proximal antecedents and the mediation exist only at the higher level of LMX.Conclusion: The study shows that the different aspects of leadership processes interact in explaining individual proficiency in safety practices.Practical Implications: Organizations as warehouses should improve the quality of the relationship between a leader and a subordinate based upon the dimensions of respect, trust, and obligation for high level of safety performance.

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Validating a Safety Climate Model in Metal Processing Industries: A Replication Study

Abstract: safety climate safety climate model safety performance replication study metal processing

Cited by 12 publications

References 37 publications

Safety Performance of Healthcare Professionals: Validation and Use of the Adapted Workplace Health and Safety Instrument

Safety Performance of Healthcare Professionals: Validation and Use of the Adapted Workplace Health and Safety Instrument

Causal Analysis of Safety Risk Perception of Iranian Coal Mining Workers Using Fuzzy Delphi and DEMATEL

Can Leader–Member Exchange Contribute to Safety Performance in An Italian Warehouse?

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