Who Do You Ask? Predicting Injury Rates from Survey Responses

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• Personal Author:
  Bhagia D ; Boden LI ; Gregas M ; McTernan M ; Pan Y ; Peters SE ; Sabbath EL ; Wagner, Gregory R.
• Description:
  Background: Few studies have addressed whether using manager or worker perceptions of safety policies and practices alone predict reported injury rates less accurately than using both. Objective: This study provides an example and describes a method that can be used to address this issue with survey instruments designed to measure safety climate, policies, or practices. Methods: Using multilevel logistic regression, we estimated the relationship between worker and manager perceptions of a given exposure and the odds of worker injury during the post-survey year for three safety scales. We tested whether surveying both workers and managers provides additional predictive value compared with surveying just one group. Results: Injury in the year following the survey was significantly associated with worker scores on two of the three scales. Manager responses were not significantly associated with injury and did not significantly improve injury rate prediction when added to a model with only worker survey responses. Conclusions: The capacity of manager-only or worker-only perceptions of safety policies and practices to predict worker injuries should be established before choosing to survey just one or the other. The approach and findings in this paper can be applied to other survey instruments and in other settings to help make this choice. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety Surveys And Questionnaires
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Survey Research Injury Prevention Occupational Safety And Health Policy Questionnaires Safety Policies And Practices Safety Practices Surveillance
• ISSN:
  1051-9815
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Boston Region [OSHA] ; California ; Massachusetts ; San Francisco Region [OSHA]
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  79
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20070411
• Citation:
  Work 2024 Dec; 79(4):1995-2002
• Contact Point Address:
  Leslie I. Boden, Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, 80 E. Concord St., Boston, Massachusetts 02118
• Email:
  lboden@bu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2025
• Performing Organization:
  Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20070901
• Source Full Name:
  Work
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/208633/cdc_208633_DS1.pdf
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