Defining and Measuring Safety Climate: A Review of the Construction Industry Literature.

ABSTRACT: Safety climate measurements can be used to proactively assess an organization's effectiveness in identifying and remediating work-related hazards, thereby reducing or preventing work-related ill health and injury. This review article focuses on construction-specific articles that developed and/or measured safety climate, assessed safety climate's relationship with other safety and health performance indicators, and/or used safety climate measures to evaluate interventions targeting one or more indicators of safety climate. Fifty-six articles met our inclusion criteria, 80% of which were published after 2008. Our findings demonstrate that researchers commonly defined safety climate as perception based, but the object of those perceptions varies widely. Within the wide range of indicators us

SUBMITTER: Schwatka NV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7778735 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature