Key Findings from Research: Strengthening Leaders' Ability to Improve Jobsite Safety Climate

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• Corporate Authors:
  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Description:
  Construction foremen and other frontline leaders may lack the leadership skills to create a strong jobsite safety climate. Many firms send their lead workers to the OSHA 30-hour course, but for years it did not include a leadership training module. This paper describes development of the Foundations for Safety Leadership (FSL), a module to address this gap, as well as survey instruments used to evaluate FSL's effectiveness. Created collaboratively by the research team, industry experts, OSHA trainers, and an instructional design firm, the 2.5- hour FSL teaches frontline supervisors leadership skills they can use to strengthen the jobsite safety climate and reduce adverse safety-related outcomes. In the FSL, students first learn the impact of effective (or ineffective) leadership, the definition of a safety leader, and five key leadership skills; they then deepen their understanding of the material by working through real-world scenarios. The authors report on a two-firm pilot study that assessed feedback from the FSL's target audience and trainers on the materials and the reliability of survey instruments that would allow a more comprehensive evaluation of the FSL. Read the abstract: http://bit.ly/2YnvDui. Read more about the FSL: http://bit.ly/2m9WR5z (CPWR report); http://bit.ly/2kd3qnl (Key Finding). [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Construction Industry Construction Workers Safety Climate Supervisory Personnel Training
• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Subseries:
  Key Findings from Research
• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20057482
• Citation:
  Key findings from research. Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2019 Sep; :1
• Email:
  Igoldenhar@cpwr.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Key findings from research
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b5dd54f7124809504b8eae5213957854e42ece21cfcb10ad5511420ef923e5944f553e13845ba6827646f0372fcccad3e2397d4247079c66dc12af3a5f5604c2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/212996/cdc_212996_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 50.60 KB ]