Workplace safety: A meta-analysis of the roles of person and situation factors.
verifiedrich profile · Journal of Applied Psychology · 2009
Christian, Michael S.; Bradley, Jill C.; Wallace, J. Craig; Burke, Michael J.
How this was studied
A meta-analytic synthesis — it pools many primary studies rather than running a single design, so there is no single-study diagram.
What this article reports
The findings we extracted from this work, normalized into Principia’s relationship form (X → Y). Each feeds the synthesized models below.
psychological safety climate → safety behavior
safety participation → accidents
safety climate → accidents
psychological safety climate → accidents
Models this article informs
The meta-analytic priors this article contributes evidence to — its place in the broader synthesis.
psychological safety climate predicts accidents
psychological safety climate predicts safety behavior
safety climate predicts accidents
safety compliance predicts accidents
safety participation predicts accidents
In the authors’ words
The article’s own abstract.
Recent conceptual and methodological advances in behavioral safety research afford an opportunity to integrate past and recent research findings. Building on theoretical models of worker performance and work climate, this study quantitatively integrates the safety literature by meta-analytically examining person- and situation-based antecedents of safety performance behaviors and safety outcomes (i.e., accidents and injuries). As anticipated, safety knowledge and safety motivation were most strongly related to safety performance behaviors, closely followed by psychological safety climate and group safety climate. With regard to accidents and injuries, however, group safety climate had the strongest association. In addition, tests of a meta-analytic path model provided support for the theoretical model that guided this overall investigation. The implications of these findings for advancing the study and management of workplace safety are discussed.
What the literature says about it
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supports “Organizational members’ safe behavior can be considered a better predictable key safety outcome than the number of accidents or incidents, due to the closer proximity to the psychological factors described above [36].”
disputes “Empirical research indicates that tangible safety outcomes such as accidents, incidents and near misses can be conceptually and empirically distinguished from employee safety CONTACT Paola Ochoa Pacheco pjochoa@espol.edu.ec behaviors such as safety compliance and participation [4].”
disputes “As accidents/injuries occur infrequently and are not effective indicators of SP, a more refined measure of SP is suggested by the researchers such as “safety behavior” that is measured using safety compliance and safety participation [1,2,4,23,25,26].”
supports “(2009), which states that occupational accidents and injuries can be reduced by creating a suitable OSH environment and providing employees with the necessary knowledge and motivation to improve safety compliance and participation [12].”
supports “(2009), which states that occupational accidents and injuries can be reduced by creating a suitable OSH environment and providing employees with the necessary knowledge and motivation to improve safety compliance and participation [12].”
supports “Group climate is characterized by shared employee perceptions and it has been suggested through research findings that group-level perceptions related to psychological safety can predict individual voice behaviors (54).”
supports “Organizational members’ safe behavior can be considered a better predictable key safety outcome than the number of accidents or incidents, due to the closer proximity to the psychological factors described above [36].”
Ancillary research
Neighbouring works in the citation graph around this article.
- 10.3390/safety7030059
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- 10.3390/ijerph14040351
- 10.1177/0018720820984583
- 10.3390/ijerph19127416
- 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.818393
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