A mediation model linking dispatcher leadership and work ownership with safety climate as predictors of truck driver safety performance

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• Personal Author:
  Huang Y-h ; Lee J ; Robertson M ; Zohar D
• Description:
  The study was designed to test the effect of safety climate on safety behavior among lone employeeswhose work environment promotes individual rather than consensual or shared climate perceptions.The paper presents a mediation path model linking psychological (individual-level) safety climateantecedents and consequences as predictors of driving safety of long-haul truck drivers. Climateantecedents included dispatcher (distant) leadership and driver work ownership, two contextualattributes of lone work, whereas its proximal consequence included driving safety. Using a prospec-tive design, safety outcomes, consisting of hard-braking frequency (i.e. traffic near-miss events) werecollected six months after survey completion, using GPS-based truck deceleration data. Results sup-ported the hypothesized model, indicating that distant leadership style and work ownership promotepsychological safety climate perceptions, with subsequent prediction of hard-braking events mediatedby driving safety. Theoretical and practical implications for studying safety climate among lone workersin general and professional drivers in particular are discussed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Explosions Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Safety Climate Behavior Distant Leadership Drivers Driving Safety Employees Exposure Levels Hazards Lone Workers Models Psychological Effects Psychology Safety Climate Truck Drivers Trucking Work Environment Workers Work Ownership

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• ISSN:
  0001-4575
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Connecticut ; Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  17-25
• Volume:
  62
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20048865
• Citation:
  Accid Anal Prev 2014 Jan; 62:17-25
• Contact Point Address:
  Dov Zohar, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
• Email:
  dzohar@tx.technion.ac.il
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• Performing Organization:
  University of Connecticut Storrs, Storrs-Mansfield
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Accident Analysis and Prevention
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4829e678c97e755952901a940c0304e463770c6cac66f911d5661e669344fe0fd18d6f915e67072983fa4538da218a373e20fef7ba0f20808987aeb08e0fe0de
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/203489/cdc_203489_DS1.pdf
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