A study of the lagged relationships among safety climate, safety motivation, safety behavior, and accidents at the individual and group levels.
2006/01/01 by Andrew Neal, Mark A. Griffin, Mark Griffin · 1,686 citations
Decision Sciences · Engineering · Health Professions · Medicine · Psychology · #Applied psychology #Environmental health #Injury prevention #Medicine #Occupational Health and Safety Research #Occupational safety and health #Perception #Poison control #Psychology #Risk and Safety Analysis #Safety behaviors #Safety climate #Social psychology #Traffic and Road Safety
paper · doi:10.1037/0021-9010.91.4.946
published in Journal of Applied Psychology 91(4), 946-953 (American Psychological Association)
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Abstract
The authors measured perceptions of safety climate, motivation, and behavior at 2 time points and linked them to prior and subsequent levels of accidents over a 5-year period. A series of analyses examined the effects of top-down and bottom-up processes operating simultaneously over time. In terms of top-down effects, average levels of safety climate within groups at 1 point in time predicted subsequent changes in individual safety motivation. Individual safety motivation, in turn, was associated with subsequent changes in self-reported safety behavior. In terms of bottom-up effects, improvements in the average level of safety behavior within groups were associated with a subsequent reduction in accidents at the group level. The results contribute to an understanding of the factors influencing workplace safety and the levels and lags at which these effects operate.
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