Organizational Climate and Injury Rate in the Underground Coal Mining Industry: A Cross-Lagged Panel Design

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• Personal Author:
  Peay JM ; Sanders M
• Description:
  This study was designed to explore the contribution of organizational . climate and management practices to the injury experience in underground coal mines. A cross-lagged panel design was used in which miners from 22 mines completed questionnaires assessing 27 organizational climate, structure, and function dimensions on 2 occasions. The results strongly support the hypothesis that climate and management practices have causal effects on incidence of disabling injuries. Specifically it appears that disabling injuries decrease when decisions are decentralized, when management is flexible and innovative in trying new procedures and programs, and when morale is high. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Mining Morbidity Mortality Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Climatic-effects Climatic-factors Coal-miners Coal-mining Injuries Injury-prevention Mine-workers Miners Mining-equipment Mining-industry Monitoring-systems Morbidity-rates Mortality-rates Traumatic-injuries Underground-miners Underground-mining Work-areas Workers Workplace-studies

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Publisher:
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Pennsylvania ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRC - Pittsburgh Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  75-85
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030935
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the 8th Annual Institute on Coal Mining Health, Safety and Research, Blacksburg, Virginia, August 30 - September 1, 1977. Foreman WE, ed. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1977 Sep; :75-85
• Editor(s):
  Foreman WE
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1977
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of the 8th Annual Institute on Coal Mining Health, Safety and Research, Blacksburg, Virginia, August 30 - September 1, 1977
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:57aeae4c5c91d24f26023a79658e1744680c691791ff776b51d839939c648ea9eee73893962186dcb5f0a24a14c895d53086c65207804ead63883a748034d79b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/226650/cdc_226650_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.07 MB ]