A Conceptual Model of Safety Climate from Leadership to Workplace Incidents

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• Personal Author:
  Che X-X ; Yan Y ; Zhou ZE
• Description:
  Safety climate is defined and accepted as a "snapshot" of workforce/employees' perceptions about safety. Much of the work in this field has focused on methodological rather than theoretical or conceptual issues resulting in a challenge of its predictive validity in the last few decades. Using a hierarchical longitudinal design, we are planning to test whether leadership style plays a key role in predicting subordinates' perception of organizational safety climate and moderates the relationship between supervisors' perception of safety climate and subordinates' perception of safety climate. We also want to explore the relationship between unit level safety climate and unit level safety outcome. Finally, we propose that job stress/strain can moderate the relationship between safety climate and safety outcome in this study. Thirty groups of subjects will be recruited from four major organizations in China. Each group consists of one supervisor and at least 5 subordinates. Participants will be asked to finish one survey each month and there will be four surveys in total. Hierarchical liner model will be the major analysis for this study to show the relationships among variables and to test moderation effect. Other analyses regarding the quality of the measures and characteristic of the sample will be performed to support the hypothesis. ANOVA will be used to show the difference across the organizations. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Quality Control Safety Stress, Psychological Workplace
• Keywords:
  Employees Job Stress Models Quality Standards Safety Climate Sampling Stress Work Environment Workers Worker Safety
• Publisher:
  American Psychological Association
• 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:
  1-2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063323
• Citation:
  Work, Stress, and Health 2013: Protecting and Promoting Total Worker Health(TM), The 10th International Conference on Occupational Stress and Health, May 16-19, 2013, Los Angeles, California. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2013 May; :1-2
• Contact Point Address:
  Xin-Xuan Che, M.A., Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, 4202 East Folwer Ave., PCD 4118G, Tampa, FL 33620
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• Performing Organization:
  Sunshine Education and Research Center, University of South Florida
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Work, Stress, and Health 2013: Protecting and Promoting Total Worker Health(TM), The 10th International Conference on Occupational Stress and Health, May 16-19, 2013, Los Angeles, California
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:953aa2a578408009002a93026a90dda6c0239d1d35447fc075eabc2f1bb52c77e90c55afb035fa290ebf1fd4c6d41bab339498fae55421bdb364fdbc5971f540
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/226403/cdc_226403_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 105.22 KB ]