Measuring safety climate: identifying the common features

Flin, Rhona; Mearns, Kathryn; O’Connor, Paul; Bryden, Robin

doi:10.1016/s0925-7535(00)00012-6

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“…Zohar found that an employee's perception of his or her manager's attitudes towards safety was the most important predictor of safety climate. Since then, studies applying safety climate to mining accidents, the aviation industry, and construction workers have highlighted the important role played by management in ensuring the safety of organisations (Flin et al, 2000;Mearns et al, 2003). We suggest here that management attitudes will exert a direct influence on own attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived control.…”

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“…Since the landmark paper on this topic by Zohar (1980) some 28 years ago, safety climate research has evolved to embrace a range of themes. An ongoing part of the research effort is devoted to improving measures of safety climate (e.g., Flin et al, 2000;Hahn and Murphy, 2008;Zohar and Luria, 2005) or adapting those measures to particular cultures (e.g., Lin et al, 2008). Other researchers have focused on identifying safety climate variables with the aim of constructing models to explain the interactions among the variables and their impact on safety performance (e.g., Fogarty, 2004Fogarty, , 2005Hahn and Murphy, 2008).…”

Section: Models Of Unsafe Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

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Safety climate and the Theory of Planned Behavior: Towards the prediction of unsafe behavior

Fogarty

Shaw

2010

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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[Abstract] The present study is concerned with the human factors that contribute to violations in aviation maintenance. Much of our previous research in this area has been based on safety climate surveys and the analysis of relations among core dimensions of climate. In this study, we tap into mainstream psychological theory to help clarify the mechanisms underlying the links between climate and behavior. Specifically, we demonstrate the usefulness of Ajzen's (1991Ajzen's ( , 2001) Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to understanding violation behaviors in aircraft maintenance. A questionnaire was administered to 307 aircraft maintenance workers. Constructs measured by the survey included perceptions of management attitudes to safety, own attitudes to violations, intention to violate, group norms, workplace pressures, and violations. A model based on the TPB illustrated hypothetical connections among these variables. Path analyses using AMOS suggested some theoretically justifiable modifications to the model. Fit statistics of the revised model were excellent with intentions, group norms, and personal attitudes combining to explain 50% of the variance in self-reported violations. The model highlighted the importance of management attitudes and group norms as direct and indirect predictors of violation behavior. We conclude that the TPB is a useful tool for understanding the psychological background to the procedural violations so often associated with incidents and accidents.

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Safety climate and the Theory of Planned Behavior: Towards the prediction of unsafe behavior

Fogarty

Shaw

2010

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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“…The importance of safety climate and its relationship with occupational safety has been established across a range of industry settings (Flin et al, 2000;Clarke, 2006;Nahrgang et al, 2008;Christian et al, 2009). Safety climate relates to individuals' perceptions of safety policies, procedures, practices and behaviors in the work environment that indicate the true priority given to safety relative to other organizational goals (e.g.…”

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“…Safety climate is associated with safety practices (Zohar, 1980), compliance with safety standards (Goldenhar et al, 2003), lower occurrence of workplace accidents (Griffin and Neal, 2000;Zohar, 2003;Clarke, 2006) and has also been found to predict safety behavior (Hofmann and Stetzer, 1996;Cooper and Phillips, 2004). Safety climate can therefore be considered as an important variable for understanding safety performance and is used as a leading indicator of unsafe work conditions (Zohar, 1980;Flin et al, 2000;Cooper and Philips, 2004;Hoffmann and Mark, 2006). However, despite its predictive validity many authors emphasize the need for further research which explains how specific features of safety climate are associated with one another and consequently with safety behavior (e.g.…”

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“…For example a number of review, field and meta-analytic studies examining a range of safety climate dimensions have demonstrated management commitment to safety as the strongest predictor of safety performance (e.g. Cox and Flin, 1998;Flin et al, 2000;Christian et al, 2009;Beus et al, 2010). Priority of safety and pressure for production, despite having received less attention than management commitment to safety, are commonly used dimensions of safety climate which have been consistently found to predict safety outcomes such as unsafe behavior (e.g.…”

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Safety climate dimensions as predictors for risk behavior

Bosak

Coetsee

Cullinane

2013

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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This study examines the interactive relationship between three dimensions of safety climate (management commitment to safety, priority of safety, and pressure for production), and their impact on risk behavior reported by employees. The sample consisted of 623 employees from a chemical manufacturing organization in South Africa. Hierarchical regression analyses were carried out to test the direct effects and the interaction effect of the three safety climate dimensions on risk behavior. The results showed that, as expected, employees' risk behavior was negatively related to management commitment to safety and priority of safety and positively related to pressure for production. Moreover, as expected, the three-way interaction between management commitment to safety, priority of safety and pressure for production was significant. When pressure for production was high, management commitment to safety was positively related to risk behavior, regardless of level of priority of safety on plant. When pressure for production was low, the effect of management commitment to safety on risk behavior was nullified under conditions of high, as compared to low priority of safety on plant. These findings highlight the importance of managerial commitment to safety in contexts where employees experience tensions between production deadlines and safety procedures.

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Occupational Health and Safety Management

Zimolong

Elke

2006

Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics

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Measuring safety climate: identifying the common features

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Safety climate and the Theory of Planned Behavior: Towards the prediction of unsafe behavior

Safety climate and the Theory of Planned Behavior: Towards the prediction of unsafe behavior

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