Exploring the Differences in Safety Climate Among Mining Sectors

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• Personal Author:
  Haas, Emily J. ; Hoebbel, Cassandra L. ; Yorio, Patrick L.
• Description:
  This study revealed significantly less favorable perceptions of the existing organizational safety climate among workers in the underground coal-mining sector compared with those in the industrial-minerals and sand, stone and gravel (SSG) sectors. Consequently, it is important to consider pragmatic ways in which health and safety management systems (HSMS) in coal mines can alter processes to improve these perceptions. Given the interdependencies of safety climate factors and HSMS elements, researchers explored mineworker perceptions of the supportiveness of organizational safety climate factors among mineworkers and identified significant differences in perceptions across sectors. In this paper, we suggest that health and safety professionals in underground coal mining and organizations with fewer resources or less mature HSMSs focus on these factors to bolster support for proactive safety performance. Potential barriers to implementing or improving relevant HSMS elements and ideas to help foster more favorable perceptions of organizational safety climate are also discussed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Health And Safety Management System Coal Miners HSMS Linear Regression Mine Workers Mining Industry Safety Climate Underground Miners Work Organization
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISSN:
  0026-5187
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PMRD - Pittsburgh Mining Research Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  52-53
• Volume:
  73
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063182
• Citation:
  Min Eng 2021 Jun; 73(6):52-53
• Email:
  EJHaas@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• NORA Priority Area:
  Mining
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Mining Engineering
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0d2211801d09989285b40e7ed531acf721f77f646b4ddfeb4e816340869e20acf61a5f0e5849beb6e69b625c89e4cdc322f2c70d5705a0a6f69d10462b17aa53
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/215437/cdc_215437_DS1.pdf
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