OSCI: an organisational and safety climate inventory

Silva, Sílvia Agostinho da; Lima, Maria Luísa; Baptista, Conceição

doi:10.1016/s0925-7535(03)00043-2

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“…Silva et al (2004) found a significant relationship between a positive perception of the safety climate and a low accident frequency, while Cooper and Phillips (2004), and then Seo (2005), demonstrated a significant link between positive safety perceptions and pro-safety behaviors among workers. It has been shown in addition that workers are more inclined to address safety issues when their supervisors encourage them to do so, and when their coworkers are also concerned with these issues (Tucker et al, 2008).…”

Section: Perceived Risk and Safetymentioning

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Safety climate, perceived risk, and involvement in safety management

Kouabenan

Ngueutsa

Mbaye³

2015

Safety Science

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a b s t r a c tThis article examines the relationship between safety climate, risk perception and involvement in safety management by first-line managers (FLM). Sixty-three FLMs from two French nuclear plants answered a questionnaire measuring perceived workplace safety climate, perceived risk, and involvement in safety management. We hypothesized that a positive perception of safety climate would promote substantial involvement in safety management, and that this effect would be stronger than the perceived-risk effect. We also expected that safety climate dimensions would have a different impact on involvement in safety management. Especially, we expected climate dimensions dealing with safety-related exchanges between managers and their supervisees to be more related to FLMs' involvement in safety management. As expected, perceived risk, as well as safety climate, was related to FLMs' involvement in safety management: the more they perceived risks as probable and serious for their supervisees, the more involved they got in safety management. Similarly, FLMs who perceived a good safety climate in their company reported getting more involved in safety management than did FLMs who perceived a poor safety climate. Moreover, the results showed that safety climate was the key variable because it completely mediated the effect of perceived risk on involvement in safety management. Another important result showed that immediate supervisor encouragement was more influential than senior management views on safety. Furthermore, the fact of being called upon by supervisees on safety issues prompted the FLMs to be more involved in safety management. Possible avenues for improving the involvement of FLMs in safety management are suggested.

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Section: Perceived Risk and Safetymentioning

confidence: 85%

Safety climate, perceived risk, and involvement in safety management

Kouabenan

Ngueutsa

Mbaye³

2015

Safety Science

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“…The development of shared perceptions about the priority placed upon safety within the work environment is believed to inform workers' role behavior through expectations they form about how certain behaviors will be rewarded and supported in an organization [7,8]. During the past few decades, several researchers confirmed the effects of safety climate on employees' safety behaviors [6,11] and on accidents [12][13][14][15][16][17].…”

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Safety Climates in Construction Industry: Understanding the Role of Construction Sites and Workgroups

Silva¹,

Araújo²,

Costa³

et al. 2013

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Studies of safety climate in construction revealed a significant positive association between safety climate and various aspects of occupational health and safety. The mechanisms through which this impact operates are still unclear and safety climate is usually studied without considering the complexity of this industry (companies, worksites and groups). The aim of this research is to analyze to what extend there are differences between construction sites and to explore the relations between construction sites' safety climate and workers' safety response and to examine how this influence occur considering the workgroups. The safety climate was evaluated using a reduced version of the questionnaire that is a part of Battery HERC (Herramienta para evaluacion riesgos comportamentales). The data were collected in a Portuguese construction company (5 construction sites; including sub-contractors) comprising 213 workers. Differences between construction sites safety climate were found, suggesting the prevalence of safety sub-climates. The workgroup safety climate played a determinant role on workers' safety response in subcontracted workgroups and it is an important mechanism through which the principal contractor can influence subcontractors' safety response. Designers of prevention and training programs for accidents prevention should include specific contents in order to improve supervisory safety leadership and workgroup safety responses.

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“…These shared perceptions about safety values, norms, beliefs, practices, and principles of workers in their work environments have been technically termed safety climate (Cooper and Phillips, 2003;Silva et al, 2004). The importance of safety perception surveys can be gleaned from the literature (e.g., Cooper and Phillips, 2003;Silva et al, 2004).…”

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Educational status and organizational safety climate: Does educational attainment influence workers’ perceptions of workplace safety?

Gyekye

Salminen

2009

Safety Science

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From a practical perspective, understanding the impact of education on perceptions of workplace safety would benefit management's decisions regarding workers' adaptability, general work effectiveness, accident frequency, implementation of safety management policies, and handling of education-related accident characteristics. The current study thus examined the relationship between educational attainment and (i) safety perception, (ii) job satisfaction, (iii) compliance with safety management policies, and (iv) accident frequency. Participants were Ghanaian industrial workers (N = 320) categorized into four educational groups based on their responses: basic education 50% (n = 159); secondary education, n = 98 (30%); vocational/professional education, 17% (n = 56); and university education, 3% (n = 7). Workplace safety perception was assessed with Hayes et al.'s 50-item Work Safety Scale (WSS): a scale that effectively captures the dimensions identified by safety experts to influence perceptions of workplace safety. Multivariate analysis (MANOVA) was used to test for differences of statistical significance. Posterior comparison with t-test consistently revealed significant differences between the two higher-educated cohorts and their lower-educated counterparts. The results indicated a positive association between education and safety perception. Higher-educated workers recorded the best perceptions on safety, indicated the highest level of job satisfaction, were the most compliant with safety procedures and recorded the lowest accident involvement rate.

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OSCI: an organisational and safety climate inventory

Cited by 125 publications

References 22 publications

Safety climate, perceived risk, and involvement in safety management

Safety climate, perceived risk, and involvement in safety management

Safety Climates in Construction Industry: Understanding the Role of Construction Sites and Workgroups

Educational status and organizational safety climate: Does educational attainment influence workers’ perceptions of workplace safety?

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