@article{ref1,
title="Negative safety events as correlates of work-safety tension",
journal="Safety science",
year="2013",
author="Stride, Chris B. and Turner, Nick and Sandy Hershcovis, M. and Reich, Tara C. and Clegg, Chris W. and Murphy, Philippa",
volume="53",
number="",
pages="45-50",
abstract="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 (&quot;barriers to safety compliance&quot;) and production and proactive ways of working more safely (&quot;barriers to safety participation&quot;). 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.<p />",
language="",
issn="0925-7535",
doi="10.1016/j.ssci.2012.09.003",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2012.09.003"
}