Safe behaviour and safety motivation

Safety climate dimensions as predictors for risk behavior

“…To date research that considers perceptions of both senior managers and direct supervisors simultaneously is sparse and yields contradictory findings regarding the impact of different management levels on employee safety behavior (e.g. Andriessen, 1978;Simard and Marchand, 1995;Zohar and Luria, 2005;Cooper, 2006). Building on our findings, future research could address commitment to safety at both management levels in order to see if the found interaction among the safety climate dimensions holds for senior and front line managers, and investigate whether either takes precedence when pressure for production is high or low.…”

Attending Weak Signals: The Prevention of Work-related Illnesses

“…Previous studies (Andriessen, 1978;Hofmann & Stetzer, 1998;Törner & Pousette, 2009) investigating the effect of various variables on health and safety performance have concluded by primarily emphasizing the importance of communication between managers and workers. The contribution of our study to OHS research is to describe, using a theoretical framework not previously used in health and safety management studies: the content of the communication among first-line managers, workers, personnel experts, and occupational health care specialists, as they deal with informal information as weak signals in health care and safety work.…”

“…In a summary of this issue, Törner and Pousette (2009, p. 407) state: 'The mechanism [how safety performance is influenced] appears to be dependent on successful development of open and mutually trustful vertical as well as horizontal relationships'. In several studies (Andriessen, 1978;Hofmann & Stetzer, 1998;Törner & Pousette, 2009) that have investigated variables influencing safety performance, however, little attention has been paid to the detailed content of managers' communication with workers or experts -communications that could catch problems their early stages. However, it may be questioned whether these experts have the knowledge to make professional judgments about weak signals and are the right partners when making judgments on weak signals, since OHCS specialists in previous research have been criticized for not having the right competence on organizational preventive measures (Ahnmé Ekenryd et al, 2012;SOU, 2004: 113).…”

Enhancing Safety Performance by Recognizing the Role of Perceived Management Commitment to Safety in the Jordanian Healthcare Industry: Conceptual Framework

“…These interventions that attain safety performance are mainly safety behaviors (Neal et al, 2000). Sequentially, safety behavior is represented at least by two dimensions (Andriessen, 1978;Neal & Griffin, 2006;Neal et al, 2000;Vinodkumar & Bhasi 2010). Accordingly, safety performance is represented by the safety related behaviors (safety compliance and safety participation).…”