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Safety Culture: The Prediction of Commitment to Safety in the Manufacturing Industry
Alistair CheyneAlistair CheyneJosé M. TomásAmparo OliverSue Coxsubject
business.industryStrategy and Managementmedia_common.quotation_subjectEffective safety trainingGeneral Business Management and AccountingInterview dataManufacturing sectorManagement of Technology and InnovationManufacturingOperations managementQuality (business)Safety cultureMarketingbusinessmedia_commondescription
This paper reports one aspect of a large-scale study of safety culture in 13 companies operating in the manufacturing sector in the UK. The study is based on data collected from three different domains of measurement relevant to the description of safety culture: workplace assessments, a survey of employee attitudes to safety – including questionnaire and interview data – and company accident records. The data described in this paper concern the prediction of perceived commitment to safety from employees' attitudes to safety as reported in a self-administered questionnaire. Commitment to safety was used as a marker of the strength of the organization's safety culture. The data showed that employees' attitudes to safety could be modelled in terms of three factors: management actions for safety, the quality of safety training and their personal actions for safety. Their attitudes with regards to management actions for safety showed the strongest relationship to commitment to safety. These attitudes also predicted those regarding the quality of safety training and personal actions for safety. Interestingly, the latter were not related to appraisals of commitment to safety.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998-09-01 | British Journal of Management |