Quality of the Execution of Corporate Safety Policies and Employee Safety Outcomes: Assessing the Moderating Role of Supervisor Safety Support and the Mediating Role of Employee Safety Control

The relationship between safety climate and injury rates across industries: The need to adjust for injury hazards

“…The same survey was used in our earlier studies of different companies that examined issues ranging from safety polices and injury outcomes, relationships between job satisfaction and employment status, and the associations among post injury job satisfaction, organizational support, and returnto-work policies (Huang et al, 2003(Huang et al, , 2004a. The reliability and validity of the survey questions and subsequent scales developed from them were demonstrated in these earlier studies.…”

“…These surveys were used to assess current safety practices in a company and were conducted on an as needed basis as part of regular loss prevention activities and were not designed to be representative of all industries. As part of these assessments certain loss prevention consultants with an interest in safety climate included a module to access the safety climate of specific worksites (Huang et al, 2003(Huang et al, , 2004a(Huang et al, ,b, 2006. We reviewed the over 200 reports available to us which included the safety climate module, and identified reports on 33 companies which for which we were able to obtain reliable data on both the employed population and WC injury claims data, and where detailed results of the standardized safety climate surveys conducted at the company were available.…”

“…This current study used the same survey instrument to examine actual injury rates in all 33 companies under study. Based on the safety climate literature (especially the work of Zohar, 2000;Griffin and Neal, 2000) and analyses of the psychometric properties of the questions (Huang et al, 2004a(Huang et al, , 2006, we identified 14 questions in the survey that represent four different dimensions of safety climate (i.e., management commitment on safety, quality of return-to-work policies, quality of post-injury administration, and safety training) (Ho, 2004;Huang et al, 2006). Full details of these analyses are referred to in our earlier paper (Huang et al, 2006), and are briefly described below.…”

“…More details of the question contents can be found in Huang et al (2004a) and the survey questions are available from the authors on request.…”

Developing a comprehensive safety performance evaluation framework for Saudi schools

“…Safety audits and reviews are a structured process of collecting independent information on the efficiency, effectiveness, and reliability of the total SMS and of drawing up plans for correction and prevention action (Teo and Ling, 2006). This construct is concerned with an employee's feedback in an audit/accident investigation report, his/her satisfaction with regard to follow-up actions, and the supervisor's interest and ability to take necessary action (Clarke, 2010;Grabowski et al, 2007;Huang et al, 2004;Kines et al, 2010;Lawrie et al, 2006). In fact, safety policies and procedures are considered one of the most influential factors driving SP because organisational policies regarding safety have a significant influence on cultivating a positive, healthy safety culture (Clarke, 2010;Kines et al, 2010;Ng et al, 2005;Teo et al, 2005).…”