A proposed model of safety climate: Contributing factors and consequences

Date

2008-06-01

Author

Yucebilgic, Harika
Sümer, Hayriye Canan

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

160
views

0
downloads

The aim of the present study was to propose a model on safety climate by investigating the relationship between safety climate perceptions of employees and their safety-related behaviors in the workplace. Additionally, effects of fatalism views and risk taking/sensation seeking tendencies on safe behaviors were analyzed. The possible moderating effects of these variables on safety climate-safe behavior relationship were also investigated. A total of 185 blue-collar employees working in a manufacturing firm participated in the study. Participants filled out the questionnaires including scales of safety climate, cultural values (fatalism, individualism, hierarchy, and egaliterianism) and dimensions (collectivism, power distance, and uncertainty avoidance), and risk taking/sensation seeking. The outcome variables included self-reported compliance with safety rules and self-reported percentage of safety equipment use. Safety climate perceptions predicted compliance with the safety rules. Also, sensation seeking tendencies were found to predict use of protective equipments. The hypothesized relationships concerning fatalism views and moderations were not confirmed in the present study. In addition to the hypotheses, safety climate perceptions tended to be more positive as collectivism, power distance increased, and uncertainty avoidance of the employees increased. Sensation seeking tendencies were higher for employees who reported less equipment use. Employees who reported to have had an accident had higher risk taking scores than employees who reported not to have had an accident involvement. The results are discussed with the implications and contributions of the study. Limitations of the study are presented along with some suggestions for future research.

Subject Keywords

Psychology

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/54516

Journal

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY

Collections

Department of Psychology, Article

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

A proposed model of safety climate : contributıng factors and consequences Yücebilgiç, Harika; Sümer, Hayriye Canan; Department of Psychology (2007) The aim of the present study was to propose a model on safety climate by investigating the relationship between safety climate perceptions of employees and their safety-related behaviors in the workplace. Additionally, effects of fatalism views and risk taking/sensation seeking tendencies on safe behaviors were analyzed. The possible moderating effects of these variables on safety climate-safe behavior relationship were also investigated. A total of 185 blue-collar employees working in a manufacturing firm ...
Paths from fear of death to subjective well-being : a study of structural equation modeling based on the terror management theory perspective Şimşek, Ömer Faruk; Aydın, Gül; Department of Educational Sciences (2005) In this research four models derived from Terror Management Theory (TMT) were tested by using structural equation modeling.. These models were developed for testing different theoretical alternatives in relation to psychological mechanisms explaining the subjective well-being as an outcome of fear of death. The first two models were based on the original Terror Management Theory. The first supposed that death anxiety as a catalyst motivates individuals in two defenses: developing culturally committed person...
Visual perspective in causal attribution, empathy and attitude change Onder, OM; Öner Özkan, Bengi (SAGE Publications, 2003-12-01) The aim of the present study was to test the effect of visual perspective on the actor-observer bias. For this aim, we examined the effects of different visual perspectives on individuals' external and internal attributions. In addition to this, we examined the presence or absence of an attitude change toward the death penalty due to participants' visual perspective. One week before the experiment, we measured the participants' attitudes toward the death penalty. Then, during the experiment, films produced ...
The Relationship between safety culture, aberrant behaviors and safety consequences Yazıcı, Gülay; Özkan, Türker; Department of Psychology (2015) This thesis study aimed to explore safety culture, aberrant behaviors and safety consequences such as work accident and near-misses. Three main studies were conducted to analyze this relationship. The first study aimed to define safety culture dimensions unique to organizations by using archival data of work accident. 332 work accident report was analyzed by factor analysis. Five different safety culture dimensions were extracted. After completion of workshop and safety literature review, ten safety culture...
Relationship between self-construals and future time orientations Güler, Ayça; İmamoğlu, Emine Olcay; Department of Psychology (2004) The present research investigated attitudes of the university students towards the future, as well as the relation between future time orientations and self-construals. The sample consisted of 303 Middle East Technical University students with a mean age of 21. Four scales were administered to respondents: the Balanced Integration Differentiation Scale (BID) (Imamoglu, 1998, 2002), the Positive Future Expectation Scale (PFES) (Imamoglu, 2001), the Future Time Orientation Scale (FTO) (Gjesme, 1979), and the ...

Citation Formats

H. Yucebilgic and H. C. Sümer, “A proposed model of safety climate: Contributing factors and consequences,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, pp. 124–124, 2008, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/54516.