The Distinctiveness of Safety Climate and Violence Prevention Climate

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• Personal Author:
  Gazica M ; Spector P
• Description:
  Objective: The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to confirm the distinctiveness of safety climate and violence prevention climate, and (2) to explore the relationships between and among the two climate constructs, domain-specific motivation and compliance, and related safety and well-being outcomes. Methods: Participants consisted of 423 college students employed for at least 20 hours a week, all of whom were recruited from the USF Department of Psychology human subjects pool. Each participant completed a host of survey measures, including violence prevention and safety climate, exposure to workplace accidents, aggression, and interpersonal conflict, and job satisfaction. This study employed a variety of statistical analyses to test study-related hypotheses, including correlation, multiple regression, and exploratory factor analyses. Results: The data support that the two climate constructs are distinct, albeit related, constructs. The data further revealed that each of safety climate and violence prevention climate had differential relationships with the study's outcome variables. Conclusion: Overall, the results of this study suggest that while safety climate variables might be the most influential predictors of various workplace health and safety outcomes, violence prevention variables do add some predictive validity in certain circumstances, but perhaps not necessarily in the way that theory suggests. The results of this study might further suggest these two climate constructs share a common factor that may predict relevant safety outcomes better than either construct alone. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Environmental Exposure Men Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Violence Women Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accidents Author Keywords: Violence Prevention Climate Exposure Levels Humans Risk Factors Safety Climate Violence Prevention Work Environment Workers
• Publisher:
  University of South Florida (USF)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  13
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20064017
• Citation:
  Sunshine ERC Research Poster Session/USF Health Research Day, February 21-23, 2013, Tampa, Florida. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida (USF), 2013 Feb; :13
• Contact Point Address:
  Michele Gazica, University of South Florida, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology, Sunshine ERC
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• Performing Organization:
  Sunshine Education and Research Center, University of South Florida
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Sunshine ERC Research Poster Session/USF Health Research Day, February 21-23, 2013, Tampa, Florida
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/222544/cdc_222544_DS1.pdf
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