Negative safety events as correlates of work-safety tension

作者：Stride Chris B; Turner Nick^*; Hershcovis M Sandy; Reich Tara C; Clegg Chris W; Murphy Philippa

来源：Safety Science, 2013, 53: 45-50.

DOI：10.1016/j.ssci.2012.09.003

• Injuries
• Railway
• Safety compliance
• Safety participation
• Work-safety tension

We investigate the extent to which three types of self-reported negative safety events (i.e., being injured at work, working in an unsafe way, witnessing others working in an unsafe way) correlate with work-safety tension. Work-safety tension is bi-dimensional, defined here as the perceived conflict between production and following safety rules (%26quot;barriers to safety compliance%26quot;) and production and proactive ways of working more safely (%26quot;barriers to safety participation%26quot;). Directly experiencing or witnessing negative safety events may send signals to employees about the extent to which their organization prioritizes production over safety. We tested a model of negative safety events as predictors of both barriers to safety compliance and barriers to safety participation using survey data from 316 front-line supervisors (97% male, mean age = 44 years) working for a UK rail maintenance company. The number of injuries directly experienced had a positive relationship with perceived barriers to safety compliance, whereas the number of times respondents witnessed others work in an unsafe way had a positive relationship with perceived barriers to safety participation.

• 出版日期2013-3