Safety Climate in MT Mining: A Case Study

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• Personal Author:
  Aldossari H ; Autenrieth D ; Birkenbuel L ; Gilkey D ; McGivern M ; Murphy T ; Rosenthal S
• Description:
  A safety climate case study was carried out at a surface metal mine where investigators administered the Liberty Mutual Short Scale Safety Climate Survey to 365-368 miners to measure safety climate in consecutive years. Following the baseline safety climate survey in 2019, Foundations for Safety Leadership (FSL) training was conducted with 81 middle to upper management employees at the mine site. Investigators found statistically significant differences in the pre vs. posttraining FSL assessment scores of the middle to upper management employees who attended the training. The follow-up safety climate evaluation was compared to baseline scores and revealed no significant improvement. The overall baseline company safety climate score of 76.38 increased minimally to 76.50 (p-value=0.616). Investigators also evaluated differences in safety climate between the company's three major divisions (operations, maintenance, and administration). Both years administration had the highest mean score and operations had the lowest mean score. The authors attributed the statistically significant differences found among the three major divisions to various dissimilarities in their work environments. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Mining Occupational Health Safety Staff Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Safety Climate Employees Metal Mining Miners Safety Climate Safety Culture Surface Mining Training Work Environment Workers Worker Safety

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• ISSN:
  2524-3462
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Montana ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  38
• Issue:
  5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063518
• Citation:
  Min Metall Explor 2021 Oct; 38(5):1861-1875
• Contact Point Address:
  David Gilkey, Department of Safety, Health and Industrial Hygiene, Montana Technological University, 1300 West Park St., Butte, MT 59701
• Email:
  dgilkey@mtech.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Performing Organization:
  Montana Technological University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6165d89a99c699df466674829d3b30fb2e57564be98700506ffdc8b0d8f56e964cc08022c8c93054221fbb19dda97729c2d2809e438a8a54a2e27a43c3e2d5c8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/222108/cdc_222108_DS1.pdf
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