Organizational Safety Climate and Work Experience

Gyekye, Seth Ayim; Salminen, Simo

doi:10.1080/10803548.2010.11076856

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“…48 Similar to our results, previous studies have found that safety climate perception varies between management and workers irrespective of industry. 18,19,40,49 Despite variability by respondent job position, no scores suggested a positive perception of safety climate on construction worksites. Among Hispanic construction workers, safety climate scores had a mean of 30%.…”

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“…8,[15][16][17] Safety climate is a suggested antecedent on the injury causal pathway, directly affecting safety-related behaviors. 7,13,18,19 Unlike injury rates and lost time days, which reflect workplace safety performance retrospectively, safety climate assessment is a proactive approach for improving worksite safety. 20,21 Previous studies suggest that organizations with strong safety climate scores exhibit lower injury rates than organizations with weak scores.…”

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Results of a community-based survey of construction safety climate for Hispanic workers

Marín

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Roelofs

2015

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

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Background: Hispanic construction workers experience high rates of occupational injury, likely influenced by individual, organizational, and social factors. Objectives: To characterize the safety climate of Hispanic construction workers using worker, contractor, and supervisor perceptions of the workplace. Methods: We developed a 40-item interviewer-assisted survey with six safety climate dimensions and administered it in Spanish and English to construction workers, contractors, and supervisors. A safety climate model, comparing responses and assessing contributing factors was created based on survey responses. Results: While contractors and construction supervisors' (n5128) scores were higher, all respondents shared a negative perception of safety climate. Construction workers had statistically significantly lower safety climate scores compared to supervisors and contractors (30.6 vs 46.5%, P,0.05). Safety climate scores were not associated with English language ability or years lived in the United States. Conclusions: We found that Hispanic construction workers in this study experienced a poor safety climate. The Hispanic construction safety climate model we propose can serve as a framework to guide organizational safety interventions and evaluate safety climate improvements.

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Results of a community-based survey of construction safety climate for Hispanic workers

Marín

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Roelofs

2015

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

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“…For example, the risk of a woodworker having an injury on his/her first day on the job can be even 50 times higher than that of a worker with one year's work experience (Larsson, 1988). Injury risk generally decreases as work experience increases (Butani, 1988;Gyekye & Salminen, 2010). On the other hand, it has been shown that experience per se does not decrease injury frequency independent of age (Gun & Ryan, 1994).…”

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Individual and Organizational Factors of Safe Behaviour among Ghanaian Industrial Workers

Salminen¹,

Gyekye²,

Ojajärvi³

2013

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The aim of this study is to compare individual and organizational factors as predictors of accident frequency. Four hypotheses based on the literature were presented: 1) both individual and organizational factors contribute to accident frequency, 2) individual factors have more impact than organizational factors, 3) both Organizational citizenship behaviour and Perceived organizational support are positively associated with safety behaviour, and 4) among the four organizational factors, Perceived organisational support has the most impact. The participants were 320 Ghanaian industrial workers from textile factories, breweries and mines. Organizational safety climate was measured using the 50-item Workplace Safety Scale. Organizational citizenship behaviour, Perceived organizational support and job satisfaction were measured by standardised scales. Individual factors were gender, age, education, marital status and job tenure. The respondents reported their accidents during the past 12 months. Models were tested using Structural Equation Modelling: Both individual and organizational factors contributed to accident frequency supporting hypothesis 1. Hypothesis 2 was rejected as organizational factors were more strongly related to accident frequency than individual factors. Organizational citizenship behaviour and Perceived organizational support were positively associated with safety performances as Hypothesis 3 suggested. In line with Hypothesis 4 the strongest predictor of safety behaviour was Perceived organizational support. This study showed that both individual and organizational factors are contributory for accident process. However, the influence of organizational factors was stronger than that of individual factors. Implications for safety in Ghanaian organizations were discussed.

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“…Furthermore, this association was not significant in Adl et al study (14). On the other hand, study of Gyekye et al indicated that the association between safety climate and work experience was significant (18). There is a significant association between marital status and regulations and safety instructions.…”

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Investigation of Safety Climate in an Oil Industry in Summer of 2014

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Background: Safety Climate is an issue that has received much attention in recent years. Evaluation of safety climate in a workplace gives us good information about the safety organization situation. Safety climate is a leading indicator in preventing accidents. Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate safety climate and investigate of association between safety climate and demographic factors in an oil industry in summer of 2014. Materials and Methods:This cross-sectional descriptive-analytical research was conducted in an oil industry during summer of 2014. Sample size was 97 and used the Loughborough University Safety Climate Assessment Toolkit, which assesses safety climate in nine areas. Scoring in each area was done in Likert scale. Data analyzing was done after data collection. Results: Final scoring was done on a scale of one through ten. The highest scores were achieved in personal values (mean score, 8.7 ± 1.36) and lowest scores were achieved on the personal perception of risk (mean score, 5.4 ± 1.26). The mean safety climate score were 6.8. Significant associations were found between safety climate and age (P = 0.01), between age and management's commitment to safety (P = 0.02), and between marital status and regulations and guidelines (P = 0.04). The association of other domains with the age, education, and marital status were not significant (P > 0.05). Conclusions: Based on of this study, management has an important role in creating a positive safety climate. Individual characteristics can influence thee safety climate. Management commitment to safety is an important factor in the success of safety programs.

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Organizational Safety Climate and Work Experience

Abstract: The study examined the relationships between work experience and (a) safety perceptions, (b) work experience safety perceptions job satisfaction compliance safety management

Cited by 33 publications

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Results of a community-based survey of construction safety climate for Hispanic workers

Results of a community-based survey of construction safety climate for Hispanic workers

Individual and Organizational Factors of Safe Behaviour among Ghanaian Industrial Workers

Investigation of Safety Climate in an Oil Industry in Summer of 2014

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