scholarly journals Safety in Shipping: Investigating Safety Climate in Norwegian Maritime Workers

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 1844-1848
Author(s):  
Steven C. Mallam ◽  
Jørgen Ernstsen ◽  
Salman Nazir
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Organizational Safety ◽  
Service Staff ◽  
Perceptions Of Safety ◽  
Mediating Factor ◽  
And Training

Working at sea places individuals in an inherently dangerous environment for extended periods, exposing them to unique risks not found in land-based industries. Safety-critical socio-technical systems demand an inherent organizational safety culture for reliable and safe operations. Safety climate acts as a mediating factor between the broader organizational climate and safety behavior of individuals and teams. This paper investigates safety climate of individuals working at sea. Two hundred persons (47.3 yrs ±12.9; 175 males, 25 females) working as seafarers ( n=132) and onboard service staff ( n=68) with Norwegian maritime companies completed an online safety climate questionnaire. Results indicate that maritime workers generally have lower perceptions of safety within their organizations in comparison to other industries. Furthermore, certified seafarers have lower perceptions of safety then onboard service staff, who have lower restrictions to working at sea, and generally less maritime safety education and training.

scholarly journals Design, Implementation and Perceptions of Safety Culture Prerequisites

2019 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 01004
Author(s):  
Nektarios Karanikas ◽  
Alfred Roelen ◽  
Alistair Vardy
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Organizational Safety ◽  
Professional Literature ◽  
Just Culture ◽  
Learning Cultures ◽  
Perceptions Of Safety ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Organizational Safety Culture

In the frame of an on-going 4-years research project, the Aviation Academy Safety Culture Prerequisites (AVAC-SCP) metric was developed to assess whether an organisation plans and implements activities that correspond to prerequisites for fostering a positive safety culture. The metric was designed based on an inclusive theoretical framework stemmed from academic and professional literature and in cooperation with knowledge experts and aviation companies. The goal of the AVAC-SCP is to evaluate three aspects, namely (1) the extent to which the prerequisites are designed/documented, (2) the degree of the prerequisites’ implementation, and (3) the perceptions of the employees regarding the organizational safety culture as a proxy for the effectiveness of the prerequisites’ implementation. The prerequisites have been grouped into six categories (common prerequisites and just, flexible, reporting, information and learning cultures) and the metric concludes with scores per aspect and category. The results from surveys at 16 aviation companies showed that these companies had adequately included most of the Safety Culture Prerequisites (SCP) in their documentation where Just culture plans scored the lowest and Reporting culture plans were found with the highest percentage of planning. The level of SCP implementation was the same high as the organisational plans and quite uniform across the companies and sub-cultures. The perceptions were at the same overall level with implementation, but employees perceived the organisational environment as less fair and more flexible than managers claimed. Although the study described in this report was exploratory and not explanatory, we believe that the results presented in combination with the ones communicated to the participating companies can trigger the latter to investigate further their weaker areas and foster their activities related to Safety Culture Prerequisites. Also, the AVAC-SCP metric is deemed useful to organisations that want to self-assess their SCP levels and proceed to comparisons amongst various functions and levels and/or over time.

scholarly journals Safety Climate Perceptions in the Construction Industry of Saudi Arabia: The Current Situation

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (18) ◽  
pp. 6717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Mosly ◽  
Anas A. Makki
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Climate Perceptions ◽  
And Performance

Workers’ wellbeing and safety is important in the construction industry due to the high risk of accidents. Safety climate development is a positive initial step toward raising the safety levels of construction practitioners. This study aims at revealing the factors influencing safety climate perceptions in the construction industry of Saudi Arabia. A set of extracted factors from the literature was validated and used to design a comprehensive questionnaire survey. Data was collected from 401 personnel working on 3 large construction project sites in Saudi Arabia. Descriptive statistics and the crosstabulation algorithm, Kendall’s tau-b correlation test, were used to analyze the data. The study revealed a set of 13 factors influencing safety climate perceptions, which are: Supervision, guidance and inspection, appraisal of risks and hazards, social security and health insurance, workmate influences, management safety justice, management commitment to safety, education and training, communication, workers’ safety commitment, workers’ attitude toward health and safety, workers’ involvement, supportive environment, and competence. The results also indicate the significant and anticipated role of top management in safety climate at sites. Implications of this study include assisting construction industry stakeholders to better understand and enhance safety climate, which in turn will lead to improved safety behavior, culture, motivation, and performance.

scholarly journals A Conceptual Model of Multi-Spectra Perceptions for Enhancing the Safety Climate in Construction Workplaces

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 347
Author(s):  
Sungjin Kim ◽  
Siyuan Song ◽  
Donghoon Lee ◽  
Daeyoung Kim ◽  
Sangsoo Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Commercial Building ◽  
Work Organizations ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Organizational Safety ◽  
Work Pressure ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
Perception Model ◽  
Job Site ◽  
Significant Factors

Construction safety climates can reflect organizational safety behavior and commitment, employees’ safety perceptions and attitudes, and the supervisory and support environments. Maintaining a healthy safety climate can help prevent workers from fatal accidents and illnesses. To enhance the safety climate and, consequently, improve safety performance at a construction site, it is very important to analyze the elements that affect the safety climate and are significant for different types of construction work organizations. Therefore, the main goal of this study was to develop a multi-spectra perception model to investigate which factors were considered critical from four key perspectives: managers, superintendents, skilled laborers, and general helpers. To achieve this goal, a survey questionnaire was conducted to collect empirical data from one commercial building construction project. Based on a stepwise regression analysis, it was revealed that the most significant factors enhancing the safety climate are: from the managers’ perspective, a combination of improvement in the support environment and reduction in work pressure; for superintendents and skilled laborers, increasing worker competence; and for general laborers, increasing worker involvement. This research contributes to a better understanding of the significant factors and provides a measure for each important role in enhancing the safety climate at a job site.

Positive Behavior and Perceptions of Safety Culture in Academic Research Laboratories

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhitinut Ratnapradipa ◽  
Jonah Lee ◽  
Kendra Ratnapradipa ◽  
Marcus C. Galloway ◽  
Ami Ruffing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Positive Behavior ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Perceptions Of Risk ◽  
Safety Compliance ◽  
Perceptions Of Safety ◽  
New Research

In academic labs, organizational culture is an important consideration for safety compliance. This studyexamined perceptions of risk and safety behavior to target training improvement. College of Science lab person-nel (n = 1,066) were invited participate in a web-based survey with the number of respondents (n=97) and theresponse rate (9.1%). Analysis included descriptive statistics and thematic evaluation. The majority of respondentsrated safety as important and agreed training was sufficient, but believed there was room to improve safety culture.Encouraging use of lab-based safety and risk discussions related to new research procedures was identified as areafor improvement. Perceptions of safety among leadership is important to overall lab culture.

Analysis of the impact of military organization's safety culture on safety behavior

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-81
Author(s):  
Sungho Hu
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Safety Communication ◽  
Military Organization ◽  
Safety Leadership ◽  
Safety Knowledge ◽  
Military Rank ◽  
The Military

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of safety culture in the military organization on safety behavior and to verify the mediating effect of safety leadership in this process. The research subjects collected data by classifying the military class and the military class, and the analysis resulted by applying the cross-over analysis model. As a measuring tool, a safety climate scale was used to measure safety culture, and a scale divided into safety knowledge and safety communication was used to measure safety leadership. As a result of analysis, there was no difference in the safety culture due to the difference between the military rank and military occupational specialty in the military organization. In terms of military rank, most of the commanders showed higher level of safety leadership than soldiers, and there was no difference on safety culture. However, the military occupational specialty was functioning as a variable to control the influence of the military rank on safety climate and safety communication. As a result, the influence of safety culture on safety behavior was significant, and it was verified that safety knowledge and safety communication function as mediaters, and the dual perfect mediation model was verified. Based on these results, a strategic education program or content development point suitable for redinforcing the safety culture of military organizations was presented.

Multilevel Models in the Explanation of the Relationship between Safety Climate and Safe Behavior

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Cheyne ◽  
José M. Tomás ◽  
Amparo Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Multilevel Models ◽  
Employee Attitudes ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Organizational Safety ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Worker Engagement ◽  
Transportation Organization

AbstractThis study examines the relationships between components of organizational safety climate, including employee attitudes to organizational safety issues; perceptions of the physical working environment, and evaluations of worker engagement with safety issues; and relates these to self-reported levels of safety behavior. It attempts to explore the relationships between these variables in 1189 workers across 78 work groups in a large transportation organization. Evaluations of safety climate, the working environment and worker engagement, as well as safe behaviors, were collected using a self report questionnaire. The multilevel analysis showed that both levels of evaluation (the work group and the individual), and some cross-level interactions, were significant in explaining safe behaviors. Analyses revealed that a number of variables, at both levels, were associated with worker engagement and safe behaviors. The results suggest that, while individual evaluations of safety issues are important, there is also a role for the fostering of collective safety climates in encouraging safe behaviors and therefore reducing accidents.

scholarly journals Relations between Safety Climate, Awareness, and Behavior in the Chinese Construction Industry: A Hierarchical Linear Investigation

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mudan Wang ◽  
Jun Sun ◽  
Hua Du ◽  
Cynthia Wang
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Hierarchical Linear Model ◽  
Final Conclusion ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Organizational Safety ◽  
Safety Awareness ◽  
Unsafe Behaviors ◽  
And Behavior

The vast majority of accidents in construction are generated by unsafe behaviors. Some researches also find that the behaviors could be influenced by the awareness and safety climate. The safety behavior and awareness belong to individual levels, while the safety climate belongs to the organization level. Previous studies mainly focus on the relationships between safety climate, safety awareness, and safety behavior without considering their different respective levels and the interaction between levels. This study establishes a hierarchical linear model (HLM) of safety climate, individual safety awareness, and safety behavior to examine the multilevel relationships between them. Data were collected using questionnaire from workers in different teams on the construction site in China. The results indicate that organizational safety climates affect individual safety behavior and safety awareness. In addition, there is a positive correlation between individual safety awareness and safety behavior, and the safety climates have a positive moderating effect on the relationship between them. The final conclusion offers a path for the current practice of safety management in the construction industry.

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