Safety Climate and Safety Outcomes: A Meta-Analytic Comparison of Universal vs. Industry-Specific Safety Climate Predictive Validity

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• Personal Author:
  Jiang L ; Lavaysse LM ; Probst TM
• Description:
  Previous research has demonstrated that safety climate is a robust predictor of safety-related outcomes. However, there is little consensus about the optimal strategy to measure safety climate. One of the main issues has been whether safety climate measures should be universal or industry-specific. As such, this study was designed to examine the criterion-related validity of universal and industry-specific safety climate measures by conducting a meta-analytic comparison of their relationships with a variety of safety-related outcomes (i.e. safety behaviour, risk perceptions, accidents and injuries, and other adverse events). With 120 independent samples (N = 81,213), we found that the industry-specific safety climate measures displayed better predictive power when predicting safety behaviour and risk perceptions than the universal safety climate measures. On the other hand, the universal safety climate measures displayed better predictive power when predicting other adverse events (but not accidents and injuries) than the industry-specific safety climate measures. We discuss these findings in light of the intended use of organisational safety climate surveys. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety
• Keywords:
  Accidents Accident Statistics Author Keywords: Safety Climate Injuries Isinjuries Meta-analys Risk Management Safety Behaviour Safety Climate Safety Performance Safety Practices Surveillance

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• ISSN:
  0267-8373
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Washington ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  41-57
• Volume:
  33
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20068922
• Citation:
  Work Stress 2019 Jan; 33(1):41-57
• Email:
  l.jiang@auckland.ac.nz
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Performing Organization:
  University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Work and Stress
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8c1e37a0a311393b612a68ac53bbf277944a715ff9e52dfd7604877d4a16da31995e1aff5dcc05ba19a9f7fafb7982de601792fd582aa3373b25c8853cb982e2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/207485/cdc_207485_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.49 MB ]