Safety management practices and safety behaviour: Assessing the mediating role of safety knowledge and motivation

Vinodkumar, M.N.; Bhasi, M.

doi:10.1016/j.aap.2010.06.021

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“…In this sense, Bosak et al (2013) showed that ''employees' risk behavior was negatively related to management commitment to safety and priority of safety and positively related to pressure for production'' (p. 256). In the same vein, Vinodkumar and Bhasi (2010) found that management commitment and safety rules and procedures predicted safety compliance directly whereas safety training and safety communication and feedback predicted safety compliance indirectly. Moreover, they found safety training to be the most important safety management practice that predicts safety knowledge, safety motivation, safety compliance and safety participation.…”

Section: Perceived Risk and Safetymentioning

confidence: 84%

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

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Safety climate, perceived risk, and involvement in safety management

Kouabenan

Ngueutsa

Mbaye³

2015

Safety Science

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“…There seems to be a general consensus that management commitment is critical to reducing occupational accidents at work (Vinodkumar & Bhasi, 2010). This is because management commitment reflects the seriousness of the management of safety-related issues, reflected in the attention and support given to the implementation of safety-related programs and projects in the organization (Hsu, Lee, Wu, & Takano, 2008).…”

Section: Management Commitment and Safety Compliancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The role of safety training in promoting safety behaviors among employees has been widely documented (Hare, Cameron, & Duff, 2006;Vinodkumar & Bhasi, 2010). When effective, safety training improves safety behavior, skills, and knowledge of employees.…”

Section: Safety Trainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Safety Management Practices and Safety Compliance: A Model for SMEs in Malaysia

Hassan¹,

Ramalu²,

Zin³

et al. 2016

European Proceedings of Social &Amp; Behavioural Sciences

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Safety at work is one of the key issues in many organizations. This is because accidents and injuries in the workplace can cost the organization financially and non-financially. Although workplace safety has been widely investigated, less attention is given to the small and medium enterprises. Such neglect is unfortunate because many accidents and injuries around the world, including Malaysia, happen in this organizational milieu. This paper argues that despite having limited resources to install an integrated system of occupational safety and health (OSH), concern about workplace safety should not be ignored. Against this backdrop, this paper proposes a model that hypothesizes the role of safety management practices in promoting safety compliance.

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“…In a study on the effect of employee perceptions on six SMS practices and self-reported safety knowledge, safety motivation, safety compliance and safety participation, Vinodkumara and Bhasib (2010) conducted a survey using questionnaire among 1566 employees belonging to eight major accident hazard process industrial units in Kerala, a state in southern part of India. The researchers found out that the reliability and unidimesionality of all the scales were acceptable.…”

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An Evaluation of the Relationships between Collegiate Aviation Safety Management System Initiative, Self-Efficacy, Transformational Safety Leadership and Safety Behavior mediated by Safety Motivation

Adjekum¹

2017

IJAAA

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Safety management practices and safety behaviour: Assessing the mediating role of safety knowledge and motivation

Cited by 521 publications

References 55 publications

Safety climate, perceived risk, and involvement in safety management

Safety climate, perceived risk, and involvement in safety management

Safety Management Practices and Safety Compliance: A Model for SMEs in Malaysia

An Evaluation of the Relationships between Collegiate Aviation Safety Management System Initiative, Self-Efficacy, Transformational Safety Leadership and Safety Behavior mediated by Safety Motivation

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