Nurse Safety: How Is Safety Climate Related to Affect and Attitude

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• Personal Author:
  Bruk-Lee V ; Lanz JJ ; Manapragada A ; Nixon AE ; Rodriguez JF ; Schantz A
• Description:
  Occupational accidents and injuries continue to be a critical concern for nurses, given the hazardous healthcare environment. This study advances the research on workplace safety by studying the process variables (i.e. job-related negative affect (JRNA) and job satisfaction) in explaining the relationship between safety climate and various safety criteria in nurses. Based on survey data from 326 nurses, our findings suggest that psychological safety climate is negatively related to JRNA, turnover intentions, safety workarounds, and workplace hazards. In addition, structural equation modelling indicated general support for a model in which psychological safety climate influences employee strain through job attitudes, including JRNA and job satisfaction. More specifically, job attitudes were found to mediate the relationship between psychological safety climate and turnover intentions, experience of hazards, and injuries. Safety workarounds did not significantly relate to injuries. The present study contributes to the ongoing improvement of interventions aimed at mitigating nurses' injuries by integrating job attitudes into the safety climate-safety outcome framework. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Environmental Exposure Health Personnel Men Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Women Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Psychological Safety Climate; Job Attitudes; Hazards; Safety Workarounds; Injuries; Nurses Nurses; Accidents; Injuries; Environmental Exposure; Hazards; Health Care; Health Care Personnel; Workers; Work Environment; Worker Safety; Safety; Safety Measures; Safety Climate; Humans; Men; Women; Psychology; Models;
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1080/02678373.2015.1076536
• ISSN:
  0267-8373
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  401-419
• Volume:
  29
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20064788
• Citation:
  Work Stress 2015 Oct; 29(4):401-419
• Contact Point Address:
  Ashley E. Nixon, Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University, 900 State Street, Salem, OR 97301
• Email:
  anixon@willamette.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Performing Organization:
  Sunshine Education and Research Center, University of South Florida
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Work and Stress
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e60757bfccf53da1ced767c4e3f7573e68ff29851672d260cbd0930d826d8d0ea58a7496f941f64e196781d5cd7e3f48a37a1dbb0e851678e591bbd697672af9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/248936/cdc_248936_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.55 MB ]