Safety climate and self-reported injury: assessing the mediating role of employee safety control

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• Personal Author:
  Chen PY ; Ho M ; Huang YH ; Smith GS
• Description:
  To further reduce injuries in the workplace, companies have begun focusing on organizational factors which may contribute to workplace safety. Safety climate is an organizational factor commonly cited as a predictor of injury occurrence. Characterized by the shared perceptions of employees, safety climate can be viewed as a snapshot of the prevailing state of safety in the organization at a discrete point in time. However, few studies have elaborated plausible mechanisms through which safety climate likely influences injury occurrence. A mediating model is proposed to link safety climate (i.e., management commitment to safety, return-to-work policies, post-injury administration, and safety training) with self-reported injury through employees' perceived control on safety. Factorial evidence substantiated that management commitment to safety, return-to-work policies, post-injury administration, and safety training are important dimensions of safety climate. In addition, the data support that safety climate is a critical factor predicting the history of a self-reported occupational injury, and that employee safety control mediates the relationship between safety climate and occupational injury. These findings highlight the importance of incorporating organizational factors and workers' characteristics in efforts to improve organizational safety performance. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Author Keywords: Safety Climate Employee-health Employee Safety Control Injury-prevention Occupational-health Occupational-safety-programs Safety-measures Safety-practices Work-environment Workers Workplace Injury

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• ISSN:
  0001-4575
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Maryland ; Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  425-433
• Volume:
  38
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20037862
• Citation:
  Accid Anal Prev 2006 May; 38(3):425-433
• Contact Point Address:
  Yueng-Hsiang Huang, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, 71 Frankland Road, Hopkinton, MA 01748, USA
• Email:
  Yueng-hsiang.Huang@Libertymutual.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Performing Organization:
  Johns Hopkins University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Accident Analysis and Prevention
• End Date:
  20280630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/191789/cdc_191789_DS1.pdf
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