Safety Climate: Assessing Management and Organizational Influences on Safety

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• Personal Author:
  DeJoy DM ; Gershon RRM ; Schaffer BS
• Description:
  During the last decade, interest has grown in understanding how management practices and other organizational factors impact workplace safety. Much of this activity has focused on the constructs of safety culture and safety climate. This article summarizes safety climate-related findings from two field studies. The first project examined compliance with universal precautions (UP) among healthcare workers (HCW). UP are recommended work practices designed to protect HCWs from exposure to bloodborne pathogens. The second set of findings are from a field study of work organization in the retail sector. Results presented focus on the determinants of safety climate and whether safety climate plays an important intervening role in safety performance. These studies used the PRECEDE Model (Green and Kreuter) to examine individual, job/task and environmental/organizational factors related to compliance with UP. Both studies suggest that organizational and management factors are important ingredients in achieving good safety performance. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Management Personnel Safety Climate Work Environment Worker Health Work Organization
• ISSN:
  0099-0027
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; New York ; North Carolina ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  50-57
• Volume:
  49
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20060294
• Citation:
  Prof Saf 2004 Jul; 49(7):50-57
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• Performing Organization:
  University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc., Athens, Georgia
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19990930
• Source Full Name:
  Professional Safety
• End Date:
  20030929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:69460fc465a7f2d52a2b478b407c52f67f06abb56a5627e62d72bb29a25bc637940c3ed0826129c73a011581d79da9603bfc3e3bc33ec935b3a6323e588e35c4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/224244/cdc_224244_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 916.79 KB ]