Safety Climate Among Nontraditional Workers in Construction: Arguing for a Focus on Construed External Safety Image

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• Personal Author:
  Forst L ; Stiehl E ; Forst L ; Stiehl E
• Description:
  Safety climate, employees' perceptions of work-related safety, has been promoted as a leading indicator of workplace safety in construction. While research has primarily examined internal organizational sources (e.g., manager attitudes, formal organizational policies) on these perceptions, external sources of information might be more relevant to construction workers in nontraditional jobs who work for a limited time and/or have limited interaction with other employees. This paper argues for the future development of a construed external safety image scale to measure employees' perceptions about how external groups view their organization's safety. The construed external safety image would capture the external sources that nontraditional workers use to assess safety climate and will allow public health researchers to identify and change dangerous workplaces while more effectively communicating information about safe workplaces to workers. The public health relevance of safety climate and construed external safety image for monitoring and communicating safety to nontraditional workers require examination. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Construction Industry Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Attitude Author Keywords: Safety Climate Construction Health And Safety Construction Workers Contingent Workers Hazard Communication Part-time Workers Residential Construction Safety Climate Safety Research Seasonal Workers Temporary Workers Worker Safety Work Organization

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• ISSN:
  1048-2911
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant ; Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article ; Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; OSHA Region 5
• 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:
  33-54
• Volume:
  28
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20051397
• Citation:
  New Solut 2018 May; 28(1):33-54
• Contact Point Address:
  Linda Forst, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2121 W. Taylor, Room 503, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
• Email:
  Forst-L@uic.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• Performing Organization:
  University of Illinois at Chicago
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:367d9365f474724594545486b07f5cb0e9bcedc1f0655dc023c24de473a5a83701f4e5b65788eb6a18bd3a22896590ad4775c3aa86b8541d5dd52295f23c01e3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/211371/cdc_211371_DS1.pdf
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