Causal relations between psychosocial conditions, safety climate and safety behaviour – A multi-level investigation

Tholén, Susanna Larsson; Pousette, Anders; Törner, Marianne

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2012.12.013

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“…In those cases it is expected higher safe behaviors/attitudes due to a low risk acceptance level. This relationship, between safety climate and workers' safety behaviors, was already identified in previous studies (Rundmo 2000;Johnson 2007;Lu and Yang 2011;Fugas et al 2012; Tholén et al 2013). Furthemore, safety climate can also have influence on workers' risk perception levels, as previously observed (Rundmo, 2000;Huang et al, 2007;Tharandsen et al, 2008).…”

Section: Influence Of Risk and Benefit Perception Trust And Emotionsupporting

confidence: 74%

Risk Acceptance in the Furniture Sector: Analysis of Acceptance Level and Relevant Influence Factors

Rodrigues

Arezes

Leão

2015

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal

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Risk acceptance has been broadly discussed in relation to hazardous risk activities and/or technologies. A better understanding of risk acceptance in occupational settings is also important; however, studies on this topic are scarce. It seems important to understand the level of risk that stakeholders consider sufficiently low, how stakeholders form their opinion about risk, and why they adopt a certain attitude toward risk. Accordingly, the aim of this study is to examine risk acceptance in regard to occupational accidents in furniture industries. The safety climate analysis was conducted through the application of the Safety Climate in Wood Industries questionnaire. Judgments about risk acceptance, trust, risk perception, benefit perception, emotions, and moral values were measured. Several models were tested to explain occupational risk acceptance. The results showed that the level of risk acceptance decreased as the risk level increased. High-risk and death scenarios were assessed as unacceptable. Risk perception, emotions, and trust had an important influence on risk acceptance. Safety climate was correlated with risk acceptance and other variables that influence risk acceptance. These results are important for the risk assessment process in terms of defining risk acceptance criteria and strategies to reduce risks.

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confidence: 74%

Risk Acceptance in the Furniture Sector: Analysis of Acceptance Level and Relevant Influence Factors

Rodrigues

Arezes

Leão

2015

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal

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“…Safety climate refers to workers’ perceptions about the importance management gives to organizational policies, procedures, and practices regarding safety . Safety climate has been positively linked to safety outcomes as well as safety behaviors such as increased PPE use . Associations have been observed between higher general safety climate and increased PPE use, although few have examined HPD use specifically …”

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Safety climate, hearing climate and hearing protection device use among transportation road maintainers

Cavallari

Burch

Hanrahan

et al. 2019

American J Industrial Med

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Background: It is important to understand workplace factors including safety climate that influence hearing protection device (HPD) use. We sought to investigate the association between HPD use, safety climate, and hearing climate, a new measure specific to hearing.Methods: A survey was developed and distributed among transportation "maintainers" who perform road maintenance and repair. A new hearing climate measure was designed by adapting a safety climate measure. HPD use was assessed by asking workers how often they wear HPD while in noise. The differences in safety climate and hearing climate were compared by the frequency of HPD use using analysis of variance.Results: Among 166 maintainers, 54% reported always or almost always wearing HPD while noise exposed. High-frequency HPD users reported a statistically significant higher safety climate (P = 0.004) and hearing climate (P = 0.003). Conclusions:Hearing climate predicts the frequency of HPD use and may be a useful measure when assessing and improving hearing conservation programs.

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“…Therefore, it is better to create a climate where people feel confident to assess situations and act accordingly in order to follow and improve both rules, and to enhance their skills to cope with problematic situations (Neal & Griffin, 2002). A "good" safety climate is thus not only about making people aware of rules and procedures, but about making them acknowledging new problems of safety and taking initiatives to handle such problems that have not yet been addressed in rules and procedures (Thol en, Pousette, & T€ orner, 2013). This contrast between compliance and participatory safety behavior resonates with several dichotomies in the safety literature (eg.…”

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Instrumental, Interpersonal or Holistic: Social Work Managers’ Conceptions of Safety in the Psychosocial Work Environment

Nordesjö

2019

Journal of Social Service Research

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Social work managers are accountable for risks and safety in the psychosocial work environment. This article aims to understand how social work managers deal with safety in the psychosocial work environment in social service organizations with potentially conflicting logics of regulation and security, by answering the questions: How do social work managers conceptualize safety in the psychosocial work environment?; What are the implications of different conceptions of safety in the psychosocial work environment for social work management? Through a qualitative phenomenographic analysis of semi-structured interviews with 27 managers in the Swedish social services, three conceptions were found: an instrumental, interpersonal and holistic conception. As each conception encompasses the former and thus increases the level of comprehensiveness, tensions between the logics of regulation and security increases. Managers with a comprehensive conception must therefore reflect on the way regulations for safety may conflict with social relationships. Implications for social work management are the need to discuss how safety management relates to social work professionalism, and the self-regulation due to the integration of safety thinking in social work professionalization. Future research could investigate how the conceptions relate to managerial and professional practice and how different parts of the social services conceptualize safety. KEYWORDS social work management; safety management; psychosocial work environment; phenomenography

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Causal relations between psychosocial conditions, safety climate and safety behaviour – A multi-level investigation

Cited by 73 publications

References 35 publications

Risk Acceptance in the Furniture Sector: Analysis of Acceptance Level and Relevant Influence Factors

Risk Acceptance in the Furniture Sector: Analysis of Acceptance Level and Relevant Influence Factors

Safety climate, hearing climate and hearing protection device use among transportation road maintainers

Instrumental, Interpersonal or Holistic: Social Work Managers’ Conceptions of Safety in the Psychosocial Work Environment

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