@article{ref1,
title="Multilevel models in the explanation of the relationship between safety climate and safe behavior",
journal="Spanish journal of psychology",
year="2013",
author="Cheyne, Alistair and Tomás, José M. and Oliver, Amparo",
volume="16",
number="",
pages="E54-E54",
abstract="This study examines the relationships between components of organizational safety climate, including employee attitudes to organizational safety issues; perceptions of the physical working environment, and evaluations of worker engagement with safety issues; and relates these to self-reported levels of safety behavior. It attempts to explore the relationships between these variables in 1189 workers across 78 work groups in a large transportation organization. Evaluations of safety climate, the working environment and worker engagement, as well as safe behaviors, were collected using a self report questionnaire. The multilevel analysis showed that both levels of evaluation (the work group and the individual), and some cross-level interactions, were significant in explaining safe behaviors. Analyses revealed that a number of variables, at both levels, were associated with worker engagement and safe behaviors. The results suggest that, while individual evaluations of safety issues are important, there is also a role for the fostering of collective safety climates in encouraging safe behaviors and therefore reducing accidents.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1138-7416",
doi="10.1017/sjp.2013.38",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/sjp.2013.38"
}