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

Smith, Gordon S.; Huang, Yueng Hsiang; Ho, Michael; Chen, Peter Y.

doi:10.1016/j.aap.2005.11.013

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“…In another study, Gillen et al [35] evaluated injured construction workers and found a positive significant correlation between injury severity sustained by the workers and their perceptions of workplace safety. This finding was confirmed by the result of another study [36], in which it was found that shared perceptions of safety conduct at work were negatively and significantly associated with injury rates.…”

Section: Safety and Human Factorsupporting

confidence: 80%

Advancing Safety by In-Depth Assessment of Workers Attention and Perception

Asadi¹,

Karan²,

Mohammadpour³

2017

IJSS

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Considering the complexity and sometimes unpredictability of human behavior, and its role on workplace injuries, it is surprising that psychological research has contributed relatively little in studying workplace safety compared to technology development. The focus of this paper is thus shifted to psychological investigation of human factors to understand how a hazard is perceived, how a seen hazard is recognized, and how a decision must be made to avoid the hazard. The study is conducted through a three-step experiment including a questionnaire, Balloon-Analogue-Risk-Task (BART) test and safety photos and video clips with an eye tracking system to measure and analyze the relationship between the worker's personality and perceptions of risks and hazards. A very close relationship was found between the length of time a participant spent looking at a hazard and the number of hazards identified correctly.Participants with a higher safety score were able to recognize more safety hazards than those with lower safety score. Moreover, it was found that risk-takers were underestimating a hazard, whereas more cautious and less risky participants were overestimating a hazard.

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Section: Safety and Human Factorsupporting

confidence: 80%

Advancing Safety by In-Depth Assessment of Workers Attention and Perception

Asadi¹,

Karan²,

Mohammadpour³

2017

IJSS

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“…The finding of this study revealed a comparatively low value in grand mean compared to the other studies [13,14] due to the difference of samples and industry, in which a bigger number of respondents were employed by former studies. However, this present study gained a higher grand mean value than study the conducted by Vinodkurma and Bhasi [9] in Kerala, India.…”

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Exploratory Study on Safety Climate in Malaysian Automotive Manufacturing

Rahlin

Omar

Muda

et al. 2014

Int J Occup Safety & Health

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Safety climate scrutiny has been given attention by the organization in increasing productivity and efficiency in the workplace. The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between safety climate construct factors and safety climate. Safety climate measurement as developed by Vinodkumar and Bashi was used and distributed to the selected respondents in the national automotive manufacturing plant. Internal consistency of six safety construct factors and correlation between safety construct factors and safety climate were validated using reliability analysis and Pearson correlation, respectively. The survey instrument scores had acceptable overall internal consistency (a = 0.913). The correlation analysis indicated that only two factors in safety construct factors have significant with safety climate. Both factors are enforcement of regulation and procedure of safety and safeness of work environment. The finding of this study provides a useful framework for the organization in practicing safety climate. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijosh.v3i2.6101

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“…15,17,53 These elements are represented in our Hispanic Construction Worker Safety Climate Model. 22 In construction and other sectors, coworkers play an important role in promoting a positive safety climate. Myers et al highlighted the importance of co-worker connectedness to increase resources for improving safety.…”

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“…20,21 Previous studies suggest that organizations with strong safety climate scores exhibit lower injury rates than organizations with weak scores. 22 Although safety climate was originally studied as a predictor of behavior and injury in the manufacturing sector, it has since been examined in other industries including retail, health care, petrochemical and chemical, laboratories, food, transportation, and packing plants. 8,21,[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] It has been extensively applied in the construction sector and we build upon our predecessors' work in this area.…”

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Results of a community-based survey of construction safety climate for Hispanic workers

Marín

Cifuentes

Roelofs

2015

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

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Background: Hispanic construction workers experience high rates of occupational injury, likely influenced by individual, organizational, and social factors. Objectives: To characterize the safety climate of Hispanic construction workers using worker, contractor, and supervisor perceptions of the workplace. Methods: We developed a 40-item interviewer-assisted survey with six safety climate dimensions and administered it in Spanish and English to construction workers, contractors, and supervisors. A safety climate model, comparing responses and assessing contributing factors was created based on survey responses. Results: While contractors and construction supervisors' (n5128) scores were higher, all respondents shared a negative perception of safety climate. Construction workers had statistically significantly lower safety climate scores compared to supervisors and contractors (30.6 vs 46.5%, P,0.05). Safety climate scores were not associated with English language ability or years lived in the United States. Conclusions: We found that Hispanic construction workers in this study experienced a poor safety climate. The Hispanic construction safety climate model we propose can serve as a framework to guide organizational safety interventions and evaluate safety climate improvements.

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

Cited by 87 publications

References 40 publications

Advancing Safety by In-Depth Assessment of Workers Attention and Perception

Advancing Safety by In-Depth Assessment of Workers Attention and Perception

Exploratory Study on Safety Climate in Malaysian Automotive Manufacturing

Results of a community-based survey of construction safety climate for Hispanic workers

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