Associations between safety climate and safety management practices in the construction industry.
Am J Ind Med
; 60(6): 557-568, 2017 Jun.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Safety climate, a group-level measure of workers' perceptions regarding management's safety priorities, has been suggested as a key predictor of safety outcomes. However, its relationship with actual injury rates is inconsistent. We posit that safety climate may instead be a parallel outcome of workplace safety practices, rather than a determinant of workers' safety behaviors or outcomes.METHODS:
Using a sample of 25 commercial construction companies in Colombia, selected by injury rate stratum (high, medium, low), we examined the relationship between workers' safety climate perceptions and safety management practices (SMPs) reported by safety officers.RESULTS:
Workers' perceptions of safety climate were independent of their own company's implementation of SMPs, as measured here, and its injury rates. However, injury rates were negatively related to the implementation of SMPs.CONCLUSIONS:
Safety management practices may be more important than workers' perceptions of safety climate as direct predictors of injury rates.Palavras-chave
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Coleções:
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Cultura Organizacional
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Indústria da Construção
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Local de Trabalho
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Gestão da Segurança
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Traumatismos Ocupacionais
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Colombia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Am J Ind Med
Ano de publicação:
2017
Tipo de documento:
Article