Safety climate, strain and safety outcomes

Hicks, Gemma; Buttigieg, Donna Maree; Cieri, Helen De

doi:10.1017/jmo.2015.45

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“…Since communication is a critical factor in reducing safety-norm ambiguity [60], workers need to be encouraged more to speak out to help improve the organization's safety culture.…”

Section: Safety-climate Level In Taiwan's Metal Industriesmentioning

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Safety-Culture Exploration in Taiwan’s Metal Industries: Identifying the Workers’ Background Influence on Safety Climate

2017

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Abstract:The present study aims to assess the safety-climate level in Taiwan's metal industries, as well as to identify the influence of workers' backgrounds on the safety climate. An earlier report showed that a poor safety culture was related to the cause of accidents in Taiwan's traditional manufacturing industries. This study surveyed a total of 839 workers who voluntarily participated and completed the safety-culture questionnaires. These workers were from a Taiwanese metal company and its five satellite companies. Three safety-climate factors, namely safety perception, safety communication and safety-management systems, were assessed. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted by developing structural equation modeling to ensure the questionnaire's validity. The influence of workers' backgrounds on the safety climate was identified by using one-way ANOVA. The reliability result of the questionnaire was above the acceptable level. The overall safety-climate score was 4.22 out of a five-point scale for safety perception, 4.23 for safety-management systems and 3.97 for safety communication. The scores indicate a good level of safety climate, with room for improvement in safety communication. Additionally, the influence of workers' backgrounds on the safety climate was confirmed. Based on the validity test, it was also found that the questionnaire could be improved by reconstructing its questions in its development process in order to increase the safety-climate model's reliability and validity, as well as its model fit.

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“…Since communication is a critical factor in reducing safety-norm ambiguity [60], workers need to be encouraged more to speak out to help improve the organization's safety culture.…”

Section: Safety-climate Level In Taiwan's Metal Industriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Safety-Culture Exploration in Taiwan’s Metal Industries: Identifying the Workers’ Background Influence on Safety Climate

2017

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“…We identified 44 studies investigating various determinants of an occupational safety culture . Seventeen studies referred to hospital workplaces [41,44,48,54,56,[62][63][64][65][66][67][69][70][71]80,81,84] and 27 studies were conducted at other workplaces, mostly manufacturing, construction, and other industry sectors [42,43,[45][46][47][49][50][51][52][53]55,[57][58][59][60][61]68,[72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79]82,83].…”

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“…The 44 studies were published between 2000 and 2020. Most of the studies applied a cross-sectional research design [41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65]68,69,[71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81]83,84]. We identified four cohort studies using a longitudinal research design [56,67,70,82], and only one study employing a mixed-methods design [66].…”

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“…Some studies also focused on descriptions of workplace characteristics and covered the following topics: type of organization or department [43,68,72,73,78], OHSAS 18001 (Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series) certification [72], geographical location of the organization [57], and company size or number of employees [45,46,53,72,73]. Other topics included information on employees, like kind of job contract or type of employment [43,53,57,73], respondents' role or job position [45][46][47]53,57,60,68,72,73,78], work shift [43], weekly working hours or number of hours worked [46,49,60,72], and individual data like union membership [46]. Some studies addressed organizational environment and functionality [68,72], environmental or physical working conditions [49,57,72], the quality of environmental working conditions (e.g., humidity, lighting, ventilation, temperature, workspace) [49,73,83], and work-related safety practices [74].…”

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“…Other topics included information on employees, like kind of job contract or type of employment [43,53,57,73], respondents' role or job position [45][46][47]53,57,60,68,72,73,78], work shift [43], weekly working hours or number of hours worked [46,49,60,72], and individual data like union membership [46]. Some studies addressed organizational environment and functionality [68,72], environmental or physical working conditions [49,57,72], the quality of environmental working conditions (e.g., humidity, lighting, ventilation, temperature, workspace) [49,73,83], and work-related safety practices [74]. Other studies focused on different aspects of psychosocial working conditions [42,45,46,52,53,61,72,74,75,82].…”

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Determinants of Occupational Safety Culture in Hospitals and other Workplaces—Results from an Integrative Literature Review

Wagner¹,

Schöne²

2020

IJERPH

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Background: The aim of the present study was to obtain an overview of occupational safety culture by assessing and mapping determinants in different workplaces (hospital workplaces and workplaces in construction, manufacturing, and other industry sectors) using an already established theoretical framework with seven clusters developed by Cornelissen and colleagues. We further derived implications for further research on determinants of occupational safety culture for the hospital workplace by comparing the hospital workplace with other workplaces. Methods: We conducted an integrative literature review and searched systematically for studies in four research databases (PubMed, Web of Science, CINAHL, and PsycINFO). The search was undertaken in 2019, and updated in April 2020. Results of the included studies were analyzed and mapped to the seven clusters proposed by Cornelissen and colleagues. Results: After screening 5566 hits, 44 studies were included. Among these, 17 studies were conducted in hospital workplaces and 27 were performed in other workplaces. We identified various determinants of an occupational safety culture. Most studies in hospital and other workplaces included determinants referring to management and colleagues, to workplace characteristics and circumstances, and to employee characteristics. Only few determinants in the studies referred to other factors such as socio-economic factors or to content relating to climate and culture. Conclusions: The theoretical framework used was helpful in classifying various determinants from studies at different workplaces. By comparing and contrasting results of studies investigating determinants at the hospital workplace with those addressing other workplaces, it was possible to derive implications for further research, especially for the hospital sector. To date, many determinants for occupational safety culture known from workplaces outside of the healthcare system have not been addressed in studies covering hospital workplaces. For further studies in the hospital workplace, it may be promising to address determinants that have been less studied so far to gain a more comprehensive picture of important determinants of an occupational safety culture in the hospital sector.

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Work-family conflict and safety participation of high-speed railway drivers: Job satisfaction as a mediator

Wei

Guo

Yan

et al. 2016

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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Safety climate, strain and safety outcomes

Cited by 5 publications

References 54 publications

Safety-Culture Exploration in Taiwan’s Metal Industries: Identifying the Workers’ Background Influence on Safety Climate

Safety-Culture Exploration in Taiwan’s Metal Industries: Identifying the Workers’ Background Influence on Safety Climate

Determinants of Occupational Safety Culture in Hospitals and other Workplaces—Results from an Integrative Literature Review

Work-family conflict and safety participation of high-speed railway drivers: Job satisfaction as a mediator

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