Multilevel Models in the Explanation of the Relationship between Safety Climate and Safe Behavior

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Cheyne ◽  
José M. Tomás ◽  
Amparo Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Multilevel Models ◽  
Employee Attitudes ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Organizational Safety ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Worker Engagement ◽  
Transportation Organization

AbstractThis study examines the relationships between components of organizational safety climate, including employee attitudes to organizational safety issues; perceptions of the physical working environment, and evaluations of worker engagement with safety issues; and relates these to self-reported levels of safety behavior. It attempts to explore the relationships between these variables in 1189 workers across 78 work groups in a large transportation organization. Evaluations of safety climate, the working environment and worker engagement, as well as safe behaviors, were collected using a self report questionnaire. The multilevel analysis showed that both levels of evaluation (the work group and the individual), and some cross-level interactions, were significant in explaining safe behaviors. Analyses revealed that a number of variables, at both levels, were associated with worker engagement and safe behaviors. The results suggest that, while individual evaluations of safety issues are important, there is also a role for the fostering of collective safety climates in encouraging safe behaviors and therefore reducing accidents.

scholarly journals Safety in Shipping: Investigating Safety Climate in Norwegian Maritime Workers

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 1844-1848
Author(s):  
Steven C. Mallam ◽  
Jørgen Ernstsen ◽  
Salman Nazir
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Organizational Safety ◽  
Service Staff ◽  
Perceptions Of Safety ◽  
Mediating Factor ◽  
And Training

Working at sea places individuals in an inherently dangerous environment for extended periods, exposing them to unique risks not found in land-based industries. Safety-critical socio-technical systems demand an inherent organizational safety culture for reliable and safe operations. Safety climate acts as a mediating factor between the broader organizational climate and safety behavior of individuals and teams. This paper investigates safety climate of individuals working at sea. Two hundred persons (47.3 yrs ±12.9; 175 males, 25 females) working as seafarers ( n=132) and onboard service staff ( n=68) with Norwegian maritime companies completed an online safety climate questionnaire. Results indicate that maritime workers generally have lower perceptions of safety within their organizations in comparison to other industries. Furthermore, certified seafarers have lower perceptions of safety then onboard service staff, who have lower restrictions to working at sea, and generally less maritime safety education and training.

scholarly journals A Conceptual Model of Multi-Spectra Perceptions for Enhancing the Safety Climate in Construction Workplaces

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 347
Author(s):  
Sungjin Kim ◽  
Siyuan Song ◽  
Donghoon Lee ◽  
Daeyoung Kim ◽  
Sangsoo Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Commercial Building ◽  
Work Organizations ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Organizational Safety ◽  
Work Pressure ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
Perception Model ◽  
Job Site ◽  
Significant Factors

Construction safety climates can reflect organizational safety behavior and commitment, employees’ safety perceptions and attitudes, and the supervisory and support environments. Maintaining a healthy safety climate can help prevent workers from fatal accidents and illnesses. To enhance the safety climate and, consequently, improve safety performance at a construction site, it is very important to analyze the elements that affect the safety climate and are significant for different types of construction work organizations. Therefore, the main goal of this study was to develop a multi-spectra perception model to investigate which factors were considered critical from four key perspectives: managers, superintendents, skilled laborers, and general helpers. To achieve this goal, a survey questionnaire was conducted to collect empirical data from one commercial building construction project. Based on a stepwise regression analysis, it was revealed that the most significant factors enhancing the safety climate are: from the managers’ perspective, a combination of improvement in the support environment and reduction in work pressure; for superintendents and skilled laborers, increasing worker competence; and for general laborers, increasing worker involvement. This research contributes to a better understanding of the significant factors and provides a measure for each important role in enhancing the safety climate at a job site.

scholarly journals The Relationship amongst Person-Organization Fit, Safety Consciousness, Safety Climate and Safety Behavior

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferit Olcer ◽  
Cemal Durmuscelebi
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Operations Control ◽  
Unsafe Behaviors ◽  
Control Flight ◽  
Person Organization Fit ◽  
Employee Characteristics

Technological advances have reduced accident rates caused by machine-related errors, accidents that have occurred in individual and organizational errors are still continuing. Safety perceptions, attitudes and beliefs of people and their personality traits emerge safe or unsafe behaviors in the work environment. In addition, high congruence of employee characteristics and organizational characteristics supports the creation of a safe working environment. The purposes of this study were to examine the effect of airline employees’ person-organization fit, and safety consciousness on safety behavior and investigate the mediation role of safety climate on these effects. The data collected from planning, operations control, flight safety and quality employees of an airline operating in Turkey (N=178). Data were analyzed with the SPSS 22.0 program and factor, correlation and regression analyzes were performed to identify interrelationships with descriptive statistics. Findings show that person-organization fit, and safety consciousness had positive effects on safety climate and safety behavior; safety climate had full mediation role in the effect of person-organization fit on safety behavior; and had a partial mediation role in the effect of safety consciousness on safety behavior.

The Relationship Between Safety Attitudes and Occupational Accidents

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Tomás ◽  
A. Cheyne ◽  
A. Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Employee Attitudes ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Workplace Hazards ◽  
Safety Attitudes ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Individual Attitude ◽  
The Relationship

This research provides empirical evidence on the relationships between employee attitudes to safety issues and accident indicators in a Spanish context. The research attempts to review to what degree those attitudes reflect a collective, or shared, climate for safety within a number of organizations. Data were gathered from workers in a number of industries in Valencia (Spain) by questionnaire. A total of 1,234 valid questionnaires were completed and formed the basis for subsequent analysis. Analysis of the attitude dimensions found a similar structure to that found in previous research in other countries, as well as identifying those dimensions shared within groups, more likely to represent safety climate. In terms of explaining accidents, the data showed that variables dealing with the work environment, in particular the presence of Workplace Hazards, and the individual’s approach to working safely were directly related to accident outcomes, explaining 19% of the variability in accident history. These variables were, in turn, related to the assessment of safety climate, suggesting that individual attitude variables act as a mediator between climate and accident occurrence. This paper represents one of the few attempts to explain the influence of safety climate, work environment, and individual attitudes on accident outcomes in the Spanish environment, using a theoretical model developed and validated in another European context.

scholarly journals Relations between Safety Climate, Awareness, and Behavior in the Chinese Construction Industry: A Hierarchical Linear Investigation

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mudan Wang ◽  
Jun Sun ◽  
Hua Du ◽  
Cynthia Wang
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Hierarchical Linear Model ◽  
Final Conclusion ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Organizational Safety ◽  
Safety Awareness ◽  
Unsafe Behaviors ◽  
And Behavior

The vast majority of accidents in construction are generated by unsafe behaviors. Some researches also find that the behaviors could be influenced by the awareness and safety climate. The safety behavior and awareness belong to individual levels, while the safety climate belongs to the organization level. Previous studies mainly focus on the relationships between safety climate, safety awareness, and safety behavior without considering their different respective levels and the interaction between levels. This study establishes a hierarchical linear model (HLM) of safety climate, individual safety awareness, and safety behavior to examine the multilevel relationships between them. Data were collected using questionnaire from workers in different teams on the construction site in China. The results indicate that organizational safety climates affect individual safety behavior and safety awareness. In addition, there is a positive correlation between individual safety awareness and safety behavior, and the safety climates have a positive moderating effect on the relationship between them. The final conclusion offers a path for the current practice of safety management in the construction industry.

scholarly journals Identification of dimensions in Organizational Safety Climate and relationship with safety behavior

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 627-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonghan Yi ◽  
JongGoo Lee ◽  
DongHeon Seok
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Multiple Regression Analysis ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Physical Work ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Organizational Safety ◽  
Supportive Environment ◽  
Physical Work Environment ◽  
Safety Rules

The purposes of this study were 1) to identify the dimensions of organizational safety climate and 2) to examine how these dimensions were related to safety climate and safety behavior in organization. The present study proposed 10 dimensions of safety climate (Management's commitment; Effectiveness of safety communication; Safety rules and procedures; Supportive environment; Supervisory environment; Worker's involvement; Appraisal of physical work environment and work hazards; Work pressure; Competence; Safety training) based on Mohamed(2002)'s and Zohar(1980)'s study. Questionnaire was administered to 210 workers in a shipbuilding company. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis showed that these 10 dimensions could be the valid factors of safety climate. The results of the multiple regression analysis which utilized safety climate as a criterion revealed that 4 dimensions were significant predictors(Appraisal of physical work environment and work hazards, Safety rules and procedures, Worker's involvement, Management's commitment). The same multiple regression analysis which used safety behavior as a criterion showed that 5 dimensions were significant predictors(Competence, Management's commitment, Safety rules and procedures, Worker's involvement, Supportive environment). Limitations of the study and implications for future research were discussed.

scholarly journals PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS THAT PREDICT SAFETY CLIMATE OF ORGANIZATION IN AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-262
Author(s):  
Aurelija Stelmokienė ◽  
Loreta Gustainienė ◽  
Kristina Kovalčikienė
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Employee Attitudes ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Organizational Safety ◽  
Agricultural Industry ◽  
Employee Trust ◽  
Trust In Management ◽  
Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire

Successful functioning of an organization, especially agricultural one, implies the necessity for a properly organized system of employee health and safety. The system will function properly only when employees perceive organizational safety processes and procedures as a part of their behavior at work. The purpose of this study with reference to scientific literature and empirical research to determine the main factors that predict higher safety climate in organization. 961 employees from a large Lithuanian company of agricultural industry participated in the survey. The study was conducted using Sexton’s Safety Climate Questionnaire and two scales from Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire. The analysis of data via Structural Equation Modeling confirmed the theoretical model of psychosocial safety climate antecedents. The findings of the study showed that employee trust in management had higher predictive value as compared to workplace commitment, and that the leader’s role in promoting safety in an organization is more important than employee attitudes or declared safety-related orders and procedures in the organization.

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