Beyond Safety: Safety Climate’s Influence on Organizational Outcomes

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• Personal Author:
  Bruk-Lee V ; Lamer J ; Manapragada A ; Nixon A
• Description:
  Objective: An organization's safety climate can be defined as its employees' collective perception of safety in the workplace. A stronger safety climate has been shown to increase safety-related behaviors, such as compliance with safety guidelines. However, little research involving safety climate has looked beyond safety outcomes. The purpose of this study is to examine the mediating effect of job satisfaction on the relationships between safety climate and turnover intentions (TIs), counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs), and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs). Methods: Three hundred and sixty nurses in the U.S., mostly female (93%) and Caucasian (79%), participated in this study. Safety climate was measured using the NIOSH Safety Climate scale. Job satisfaction and TIs were measured by two subscales of the Michigan Organizational Assessment Questionnaire. Behavioral outcomes were measured using a CWB and OCB scale. Questionnaires were completed through a web-based survey. Results: Safety climate was significantly correlated with job satisfaction, TIs, and CWBs. However, it did not correlate with OCBs. Using a bootstrapping method for deriving indirect effects and standard errors (MacKinnon, Lockwood, & Williams, 2004), we found that job satisfaction mediates the relationship between safety climate and TIs, but not the relationship between safety climate and CWBs or OCBs. Conclusion: Our results suggest that the impact of an organization's safety climate may be limited, but it reaches beyond the scope of safety-related outcomes. Our study furthers the research on safety climate by attempting to understand the multitude of its influence in the workplace. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Health Personnel Men Occupational Health Safety Surveys And Questionnaires Women
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Safety Climate Counterproductive Work Behaviors Employees Guidelines Humans Job Satisfaction Nurses Organizational Citizenship Behaviors Questionnaires Safety Climate Turnover Intentions

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• 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:
  17
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20064194
• 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; :17
• Contact Point Address:
  Archana Manapragada, Florida International University
• 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:
  urn:sha-512:ab634c9f0d35276f572b7899b60f50cad71734803fb6c7a6f7e864c2bb11e6c183bdbc78c3db6f838b1228394d93641119405094ee4bd7dee20b31d12fd69a4d
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/222700/cdc_222700_DS1.pdf
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