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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"safety climate"”.
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Skills for developing safety climate in construction projects
… personnel play an important role in leading safety task implementation and creating positive safety climate in construction projects. This, subsequently, leads to accident prevention through the efforts of eliminating unsafe acts and conditions. In order to do so, project management personnel …
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Measuring safety climate as an indicator of effective safety and health programs in the construction industry
The purpose of this study was to measure the safety climate, safe behaviors, and EMR, of construction companies in southeastern Louisiana, and to measure selected demographic variables of construction workers employed at these companies. Two hundred and eight workers from twenty nine construction …
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The influence of trust and knowledge management on workers safety climate at ISAVIA's aerodromes : a case study
… positively influence their perception of workers safety climate. The theoretical background used for this analysis was based on Zohars recommendations that other variables influencing workers safety climate needed to be explored and how, by applying the theory of planned behaviour, a safety …
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Safety Climate and Safety Outcomes in Aircraft Maintenance: A Mediating Effect of Employee Turnover and Safety Motivation
Aircraft maintenance is viewed as a critical safety component in general and military aviation industries, and thus it is crucial to identify the factors that may affect aircraft maintenance. Because the safety climate is considered as a leading indicator of safety performance and safety outcomes, …
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A cross-sectional and mixed-method assessment of safety culture and safety climate at a regional airline
… to conduct a cross-sectional assessment of the safety culture, safety climate, and SMS at a regional airline in the United States. Data collection techniques were comprised of interview, on-line-survey, and a focus group activity. Participants in the current study were maintenance technicians, …
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Exploration of safety climate in Nigeria: a study of organizations in Onne oil and gas free zone
Background: In Nigeria, issues of occupational safety and health (OSH) practice are still in early infancy and hence, apparently poor OSH behaviours are common coupled with an underlying varying safety climate. Work-related accidents and death rate in Nigeria are reported to be among the highest in …
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Explanatory model of antecedents and outcomes of health and safety climate in the South African construction industry
… develop an explanatory model of the health and safety (H&S) climate in the local construction industry. A secondary objective was to provide a theoretical and practical framework for the study of the health and safety climate in the South African construction industry. A literature review, …
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An analysis of the relationship between psychosocial safety climate and the work-school-interface for non-traditional students in South Africa
… (Adebayo et al., 2008). The psychosocial safety climate (PSC) is an emerging construct which refers to the shared perceptions regarding policies, practices and procedures designed to protect the psychological health of employees (Dollard et al., 2012). This study builds on existing …
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The influence of organisational typology, strategy, leadership and psychological forces on UK offshore oil and gas industry safety performance.
… is recognised as having made significant safety performance improvement progress, following the Piper Alpha disaster (6th July 1988), subsequent Public Inquiry and 106 recommendations made by the Cullen Report. However, accidents continue to occur on offshore assets due to leadership and …
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The Effects of Perceived Organizational Support on Training and Safety in Latino and Non-Latino Construction Workers
Workplace safety, if not managed appropriately, can result in human and economic tolls. The need to establish and maintain a safe working environment has probably never been more important. Despite a mounting emphasis on safe work practices, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported a total of …
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From the Mouths of Men: A Model of Men's Perception of Social Identity Threat Toward Women in the Workplace and Endorsement of Identity Safety Behaviors
… hypothesized to predict endorsement of identity safety behaviors intended to mitigate social identity threat for women in a male-dominated work context. Male awareness of systemic social identity threats for women was examined as a potential mediator of the proposed relationship between social …
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Development of a Model for Determining Factors Affecting Safety Performance in the Saudi Arabian Construction Industry Using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM)
… of hazards, sources of risk, and perceptions of safety in this unique context. A multivariate safety performance model was developed based on a systematic literature review and with an eye to ensuring compatibility with the structure of the adapted OLIP measure. The model's key variables were OHS …
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An Evaluation of Perceived and Observed Safety and Productivity in Residential Construction
… to understand if a tradeoff exists between safety and productivity to avoid shortcut behaviors in the field. This is specifically important due to the number of contractors, subcontractors and laborers that participate in the different projects. The overall objective of this research was to …
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Influence of Acculturation and Individual Differences on Risk Judgments of Construction Laborers
… the experimental groups viewed a People-Based Safety video. Each of the participants completed a demographic form, questionnaires, and the narrative simulations (pre-test). Following the narrative simulations the participants rated the narrative simulations, watched a video designated by group, …
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Factors Influencing Quality of Emergency Department Nurse Shift Handover
… such as staffing, triage, relationships, safety climate, interruptions, job stress, fatigue and handover format. The hypothesized conceptual model was tested using backwards stepwise multiple regression with data from a final sample of 227 participants. Following multiple regression …
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Safe behavior in the workplace: assessing the effects of a feedback and thank you program
… interventions were withdrawn. Responses to a Safety Climate Survey showed employee perceptions did not change as a result of the safety interventions. Results and directions for future research are discussed.
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Development and evaluation of a safety culture survey for occupational safety
… at four industrial plants, and evaluation of the Safety Culture Survey (SCS). The SCS consists of three scales: the Actively Caring Scale (ACS), the Safety Perception Scale (SPS), and the Risk Propensity Scale (RPS). The ACS measures person factors related to one's propensity to actively care for …
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