Total Worker Health Leadership and Business Strategies Are Related to Safety and Health Climates in Small Business

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• Personal Author:
  Brown CE ; Dally M ; Newman, Lee S. ; Schwatka, Natalie V. ; Shore E ; Tenney L
• Description:
  The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Total Worker Health (TWH) business strategies and employee perceptions of leadership commitment and safety and health climates. Using data from 53 small enterprises and 1271 of their workers collected as part of the Small + Safe + Well (SSWell) Study, we confirm the primacy of the relationship between leadership commitment to safety and workplace safety climate. After accounting for leadership commitment to safety, business-reported policies and practices that promote the health, safety, and well-being of workers (i.e., TWH strategies) were no longer related to safety climate. In contrast, the relationship between TWH strategies and health climate were significantly associated with the level of small business leadership commitment to worksite wellness. Relatedly, our results demonstrate that leadership is a common correlate to both safety climate and health climate. Future research should investigate integrated TWH leadership development strategies as a means of simultaneously improving safety and health climates. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety Small Business
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Total Worker Health Health Climate Health Leadership Occupational Safety And Health Occupational Safety Programs Safety Climate Safety Leadership Small Businesses Small Business Leadership Total Worker Health TWH Worksite Wellness

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• ISSN:
  1660-4601
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant ; Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  17
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20059084
• Citation:
  Int J Environ Res Public Health 2020 Mar; 17(6):2142
• Contact Point Address:
  Natalie V. Schwatka, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, 13001 E. 17th Pl., 3rd Floor, Mail Stop B119 HSC, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
• Email:
  natalie.schwatka@cuanschutz.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2020
• NORA Priority Area:
  Manufacturing ; Services
• Performing Organization:
  University of Colorado, Denver
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20190701
• Source Full Name:
  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• End Date:
  20220630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e88cc9970bd609d2026d76ed1fc4d5cbf0ea7e775a2221619aafd10b9631c72e58b85847f5ff82b307b02deec318e89ca787de12be0e930ff04f49c85d41499d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/223404/cdc_223404_DS1.pdf
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