The effects of organizational and individual factors on occupational accidents
By Amparo Oliver, A. Cheyne, J. M. Tomás, S. Cox. 2002
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This study examined the relationships between individual psychological, work environment and organizational variables and occupational accidents using structural equation modelling with latent variables. A series of nested explicative models of the relationships between these variables was derived. Data were collected from a wide range of industrial sectors in the Valencia region of Spain using structured interviews. In total, 525 valid questionnaires were completed and these formed the basis for the subsequent analyses. Analysis showed that the model in the series that proposed relationships between all the latent variables provided the best representation of the data. This supported the broad hypothesis that each of the variables has an effect on accidents and also showed that the individual level variables, including safe behaviour and general heath, mediate the indirect effects from the organizational variables. The final model showed that individual safe behaviour is strongly predicted within the model, although it is mainly related to organizational involvement in safety and not directly to perceptions of the physical work environment. An important role is played in the final model by participants' evaluations of organizational involvement in safety and this is consistent with earlier work highlighting the importance of management commitment to, and action on, safety issues. Finally, the model supported the proposal that stress processes mediate the effects of both organizational and environmental variables.
Subfields: Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, Statistics and Probability, Strategy and Management
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Citations in the corpus
- Occupational Health and Safety Management in Organizations: A Review (2012, background): “With regard to the former, initiatives aimed at improving the safety of working environments have achieved some success (Oliver et al. 2002, p. 473). whereas on the latter, research on psychological and behavioural characteristics have had mixed results in their attempts to identify factors that…”
- From safety culture to safety orientation: Validation and simplification of a safety orientation scale using a sample of seafarers working for Norwegian ship owners (2009, background): “Few studies have examined the relationship between safety culture/climate and behaviour (Seo, 2005; Brown et al., 2000; Oliver et al., 2002; Rundmo et al., 1998; Thomas et al., 1999; Mearns et al., 2003).”
- Safety climate, perceived risk, and involvement in safety management (2015, unknown): “The safety climate can be grasped by examining perceptions of job conditions and characteristics (Philips et al., 2012; Rysdstedt and Lundh, 2012) and/or by looking at individual attitudes and characteristics (Oliver et al., 2002; Tomas et al., 2011).”