Staying silent about safety issues: conceptualizing and measuring safety silence motives

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• Personal Author:
  Bruk-Lee V ; Manapragada A
• Description:
  Communication between employees and supervisors about safety-related issues is an important com-ponent of a safe workplace. When supervisors receive information from employees about safety issues, they may gain otherwise-missed opportunities to correct these issues and/or prevent negative safety out-comes. A series of three studies were conducted to identify various safety silence motives, which describe the reasons that employees do not speak up to supervisors about safety-related issues witnessed in the workplace, and to develop a tool to assess these motives. Results suggest that employees stay silent about safety issues based on perceptions of altering relationships with others (relationship-based), perceptions of the organizational climate (climate-based), the assessment of the safety issue (issue-based), or characteristics of the job (job-based). We developed a 17-item measure to assess these four motives, and initial evidence was found for the construct and incremental validity of the safety silence motives measure in a sample of nurses. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Communication Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Safety Silence Motives Communication Research Communication Systems Nurses Perceptions Of Safety Climate Safety Climate Safety Communication Safety Performance Safety Practices Supervisory Personnel Work Environment Workers Worker Safety Work Organization Work Performance Workplace Safety Workplace Studies Work Practices

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• ISSN:
  0001-4575
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  144-156
• Volume:
  91
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20049051
• Citation:
  Accid Anal Prev 2016 Jun; 91:144-156
• Contact Point Address:
  Archana Manapragada, Florida International University, United States
• Email:
  amana008@fiu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Performing Organization:
  Sunshine Education and Research Center, University of South Florida
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Accident Analysis and Prevention
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f5f72ca23a5ee8e38664520717f214a563cc394c4dad10bd3765ff12aa8259fb4802a559a662ddd49d2879954f18d408871d2103e1373999b858c350e4de17db
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/203632/cdc_203632_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.39 MB ]