Correlation between safety climate and contractor safety assessment programs in construction

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• Personal Author:
  Dennerlein, Jack T. ; Murphy LA ; Sparer EH ; Taylor KM ; Dennerlein, Jack T. ; Murphy LA ; Sparer EH ; Taylor KM
• Description:
  Contractor safety assessment programs (CSAPs) combine leading indicators, such as organizational safety policies, programs, and practices, with lagging indicators of safety performance (e.g., injury rates and experience modification ratings) to provide a safety performance metric. "Safety climate" scores measure worker perceptions of the priority of safety in a work environment. These scores correlate strongly with injury rates. The researchers tested the hypothesis that workers and safety managers in companies with high self-audit CSAP scores generate higher safety climate scores than workers and safety managers in companies with lower self-audit scores. However, their research found no statistically significant differences between the safety climate scores reported by workers across the high and low CSAP employer groups. Moreover, there were no statistically significant correlations between the safety managers' safety climate scores and the workers' safety climate scores. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Injuries Management-personnel Occupational-safety-programs Risk-analysis Safety-climate Safety-personnel Safety-practices Safety-programs Work-environment Work-organization Work-practices Worker-health Workers

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• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report ; Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046766
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2013 Nov; :1
• Email:
  j.dennerlein@neu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction ; Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Correlation between safety climate and contractor safety assessment programs in construction
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202095/cdc_202095_DS1.pdf
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