Exploration of the Impact of Organisational Context on a Workplace Safety and Health Intervention

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• Personal Author:
  Bodner T ; Hammer LB ; Pytlovany AC ; Richman A ; Truxillo DM
• Description:
  The Safety and Health Improvement Program (SHIP) was designed to increase workers' safety and health using supervisor/leadership training. SHIP was implemented and evaluated in a cluster randomized controlled trial with 20 supervisors and 292 construction crew members representing a high-risk industry. The intervention had three components: (1) computer-based training to teach supervisors ways to better support worker safety and work-life challenges; (2) supervisor behavioural self-monitoring to facilitate transfer of training to practice; and (3) team-based discussions with supervisors and work crew members to identify challenges and opportunities for improvement with 30, 60, and 90 day follow-up check-in meetings. Main effects for the intervention on perceptions of family supportive supervisor behaviors, team effectiveness, and work-life effectiveness were not found, suggesting that the pre-intervention context could help explain the lack of intervention effects. We found that the intervention was more beneficial for work crew members who had poorer preintervention perceptions of their supervisor (lower leader-member exchange) and lower perceived team cohesion, suggesting the important impact of the organisational context on intervention effects. We argue that perhaps these work crews were more ready for change and improvements in functioning than were the crews that were already functioning well. Description provided by NIOSH
• Subjects:
  • Behavior
  • Construction Industry
  • Family
  • Health Promotion
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
  • Staff Development
  • Stress, Psychological
  • Workplace
• Keywords:
  • Total Worker Health
  • TWH
  • Work environment
  • Intervention
  • Occupational safety and health
  • Work organization
  • Safety
  • Health programs
  • Training
  • Supervisory personnel
  More +
• ISSN:
  0267-8373
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement ; Grant
• Editor:
  Nielsen KM; Taris TW
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  192-210
• Volume:
  33
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20058490
• Citation:
  Work Stress 2019 Apr-Jun; 33(2)(Special Issue):192-210
• Contact Point Address:
  Leslie B. Hammer, Oregon Institute for Occupational Health Sciences, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
• Email:
  hammerl@ohsu.edu
• Editor(s):
  Nielsen KM; Taris TW
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• NORA Priority Area:
  Transportation, Warehousing and Utilities ; Services
• Performing Organization:
  Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20110901
• Source Full Name:
  Work and Stress
• Supplement:
  Special Issue
• End Date:
  20260831
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/221577/cdc_221577_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.54 MB]
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2c30488b0354561c2e489ace7758fa3bf82637c9c777409b52f43904678918fb3a21e85437a40dc014d38824eaa3680015480e522e1c760a757208ffc0c15430