A Multi-level Measure Of Safety Climate And Associations With Safety Behaviors In The Fire Service

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd D. Smith ◽  
Mari-Amanda Dyal ◽  
Yongjia Pu ◽  
Stephanie Dickinson ◽  
David M. DeJoy
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Fire Service ◽  
Safety Behaviors ◽  
Multi Level

scholarly journals Multi-level safety climate associations with safety behaviors in the fire service

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 53-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd D. Smith ◽  
David M. DeJoy ◽  
Mari-Amanda Dyal ◽  
Yongjia Pu ◽  
Stephanie Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Fire Service ◽  
Safety Behaviors ◽  
Multi Level

Safety climate, safety behaviors and line-of-duty injuries in the fire service

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd D. Smith ◽  
David M. DeJoy
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Fire Service ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Safety Behaviors ◽  
Safety Communication ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Injury Group ◽  
Safety Compliance ◽  
Zero Group

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test an initial model of safety climate for firefighting. Relationships between safety climate, safety behaviors and firefighter injuries were examined. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from 398 professional firefighters in the southeastern USA. Structural equation modeling, using a zero-inflated Poisson regression method, was used to complete the analyses. Findings – Safety climate, as a higher order factor, was comprised of four factors including management commitment to safety, supervisor support for safety, safety programs/policies and safety communication. Both safety compliance behaviors and safety participation behaviors were significantly, positively associated with safety climate. Both behaviors were deemed protective and were associated with reductions in injury. Safety climate relations to injury were interesting, but somewhat ambiguous. Safety climate significantly predicted membership in the “always zero” injury group. For those not in the “always zero” group, the relationship between safety climate and injury was positive, which was not completely surprising as direct relationships between safety climate and injury have been insignificant and opposite to predictions in studies using retrospective data and may be attributed to reverse causation. Originality/value – This novel study illustrates the importance of both organizational and work unit factors in helping shape safety climate perceptions among firefighters. The results also support the safety climate – behavior – injury model and show that a positive safety climate encourages safer behaviors among firefighters. Lastly, the findings confirm that both safety compliance behaviors and safety participation behaviors are important to reducing individual firefighter injury experience.

Roles of safety climate and shift work on perceived injury risk: A multi-level analysis

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 1088-1096 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yueng-Hsiang Huang ◽  
Jiu-Chiuan Chen ◽  
Sarah DeArmond ◽  
Konstantin Cigularov ◽  
Peter Y. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Shift Work ◽  
Injury Risk ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Level Analysis

scholarly journals Development and validation of a multi-level air freight handling safety climate scale

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 445-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew D. Roberts ◽  
Matthew A. Douglas ◽  
Robert E. Overstreet ◽  
Jeffrey A. Ogden ◽  
Christine M. Schubert Kabban
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Air Freight ◽  
Climate Scale ◽  
Development And Validation

scholarly journals Stress, burnout and diminished safety behaviors: An argument for Total Worker Health® approaches in the fire service

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 189-195
Author(s):  
Todd D. Smith ◽  
Charmaine Mullins-Jaime ◽  
Mari-Amanda Dyal ◽  
David M. DeJoy
Keyword(s):  
Fire Service ◽  
Safety Behaviors ◽  
Worker Health ◽  
Total Worker Health

scholarly journals The effect of behavior based safety(BBS) program on safety climate and safety behaviors

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwangsu Moon ◽  
Kyehoon Lee ◽  
Jaehee Lee ◽  
Shezeen Oah
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Safety Behaviors ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Steel Manufacturing ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Behavior Based ◽  
The One

This study examined the effectiveness of behavior-based safety(BBS) program in improving safe behaviors and safety climate of organization. BBS program was applied to the steel manufacturing and construction sites. The dependent variables were measured by the percentage of employees’ safe behaviors observed and perceived safe behaviors and safety climate of employees. BBS program consisted of goal-setting, feedback, and incentive. The one group pretest-posttest design was adopted for perceived safe behaviors and safety climate. Observed safe behaviors were measured during the baseline and intervention phases(AB design). The results indicated that the mean percentage of employees’ safe behaviors observed increased after introducing BBS program. Also, the mean scores of perceived safe behaviors and safety climate of employees significantly increased. Based on these results, the implications of this study and suggestions for future research were discussed.

scholarly journals The effect of organizational commitment on safety behaviors

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-73
Author(s):  
Kwangsu Moon ◽  
Jaehee Lee ◽  
Shezeen Oah
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Safety Behaviors ◽  
Normative Commitment ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Compliance Behavior ◽  
Safety Compliance ◽  
Emotional Commitment

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of organizational commitment on safety behavior and to explore moderating effect of safety climate between organizational commitment and safety behaviors. 215 workers were asked to respond to the questionnaires that measured various demographic variables, organizational commitment, safety climate and safety behaviors. A hierarchical regression was conducted to identify variables that had significant relationships with safety behaviors and to examine moderating effect of safety climate between organizational commitment and safety behaviors. Results indicated that the emotional commitment significantly predicted both safety compliance and participation behavior and the normative commitment significantly predicted safety compliance behavior. It was found that the safety climate was also a significant predictor for both safety compliance and participation behavior. In addition, safety climate had a moderating effect on the relation between emotional commitment and safety compliance behavior and normative commitment and safety compliance and participation behavior. Based on these results, the implications of this study and suggestions for future research were discussed.

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