Safety not guaranteed: Investigating employees’ safety performance during a global pandemic

Gray, Cheryl E.; Merlo, Kelsey L.; Lawrence, Roxanne C.; Doaty, Jeremiah; Allen, Tammy D.

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2022.105950

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“…According to Kiikkilä (2021) it is defined as the measurement of how well an organization maintains the mechanism and procedures to ensure an intact and secure workstation. Safety performance is considered as one of the important factors that effects employees' commitment and productivity (Gray et al, 2023;Hartnell et al, 2023). Thus, lack of commitment and productivity causes lags in the achievement of tactical and strategic goals of organization.…”

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Exploring The Impact of Principals’ Safety Management On Safety Performance: A Case Study of the Private Education Sector

2023

IJSSES

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The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of safety management practices on safety performance of staff working at private schools in education sector in Erbil city of Kurdistan region, Iraq. This research is unique as it contributes to the literature on safety management in schools. It is one of the earliest research projects on occupational safety conducted in the Kurdistan region. The research methodology used a quantitative approach, utilizing a survey questionnaire to collect data from a sample of 200 staff members. A total of 172 completed questionnaires were returned and analyzed using SPSS ver. 25. The results of the study showed a positive effect of management commitment and safety training on safety performance. However, the study also concluded that there is no statistically significant effect of safety policy, safety communication, and safety incentive on safety performance, the results also showed that male staff are more prone to experience incidents and injuries during work compared to female staff. This study recommends the leadership of schools to pay utmost attention to commitment to the implementation of measures and procedures of safety and continuously provide training programs to keep staff aware of safety measures and procedures.

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Section: Safety Performancementioning

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Exploring The Impact of Principals’ Safety Management On Safety Performance: A Case Study of the Private Education Sector

2023

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“…That is, social information is treated as any other information by most individuals and is used to form the basis of decision making, attitudes, and other evaluations. This information can be more impactful than individual attitudes or environmental features (Gray, Merlo, Lawrence, Doaty & Allen, 2023). Therefore, social information is neither inherently positive nor negative but can affect behavior negatively depending on the type of information.…”

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“…Therefore, social information is neither inherently positive nor negative but can affect behavior negatively depending on the type of information. For example, one study that operationalized social information as safety climate found that “this social information drives employees’ safety performance beyond their rational decision‐making processes and individual predispositions” (Gray, Merlo, Lawrence, Doaty & Allen, 2023, p. 2).…”

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Coworker support amplifies strain in the COVID‐19 pandemic for working parents

O'Brien,

Shepard,

Donnelly

2023

Scandinavian J Psychology

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The COVID‐19 pandemic directly threatened our health and safety, while contradictory scientific and media reports generated uncertainty. Social information processing theory suggests that employees may have relied on their coworkers, via coworker support, to make sense of the confusion. Because previous research shows that coworker support can counterintuitively increase strain, we investigated the effects of coworker support on strain during the pandemic. Specifically, we collected data from a heterogeneous US sample of 314 working parents in May 2020 to illustrate the path from personal traits (i.e., optimism, generalized self‐efficacy, and internal locus of control) to COVID‐19 anxiety to workplace outcomes (i.e., self‐rated performance, emotional exhaustion, and work–family conflict) in a multiphasic study design. Employees with low levels of these traits reported more COVID‐19 anxiety, and in turn, more decrement to their workplace outcomes. This mediation is moderated by coworker social support, such that the indirect effect is exacerbated by coworker social support. This is consistent with social information processing theory, which states that coworker social support can unintentionally corroborate and amplify employee stress perceptions. We therefore recommend that, when faced with significant adversity, organizations provide communication training oriented toward increasing positive coworker interactions and guiding social information.

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Safety not guaranteed: Investigating employees’ safety performance during a global pandemic

Cited by 2 publications

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Exploring The Impact of Principals’ Safety Management On Safety Performance: A Case Study of the Private Education Sector

Exploring The Impact of Principals’ Safety Management On Safety Performance: A Case Study of the Private Education Sector

Coworker support amplifies strain in the COVID‐19 pandemic for working parents

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