Problem. Research on the role of organizational and psychosocial factors in influencing risk behaviors and the likelihood of injury at work showed that safety climate has great impact also on workers’ behavior. However, the mechanisms through which this impact operates are still partially unclear. Method. In order to explore the role that attitudinal ambivalence towards wearing PPE might play in mediating the impact of safety climate on safety norm violations, a questionnaire was administered to 345 Italian workers. Results. Three dimensions of safety climate (i.e. company safety concern, senior managers’ safety concern, supervisors’ attitudes towards safety) were found to be positively associated with the individual ambivalence level, whereas the fourth one (i.e. work pressure) was negatively correlated with it. In turn, low levels of ambivalence were associated with a lower tendency to break the safety norms, even though the perception of a good safety climate also maintained a direct effect on unsafe behaviors.

Effects of safety climate on safety norm violations: Exploring the mediating role of attitudinal ambivalence toward personal protective equipment / Cavazza, Nicoletta; Serpe, Alessandra. - In: JOURNAL OF SAFETY RESEARCH. - ISSN 0022-4375. - STAMPA. - 40:4(2009), pp. 277-283. [10.1016/j.jsr.2009.06.002]

Effects of safety climate on safety norm violations: Exploring the mediating role of attitudinal ambivalence toward personal protective equipment

CAVAZZA, Nicoletta;SERPE, Alessandra
2009

Abstract

Problem. Research on the role of organizational and psychosocial factors in influencing risk behaviors and the likelihood of injury at work showed that safety climate has great impact also on workers’ behavior. However, the mechanisms through which this impact operates are still partially unclear. Method. In order to explore the role that attitudinal ambivalence towards wearing PPE might play in mediating the impact of safety climate on safety norm violations, a questionnaire was administered to 345 Italian workers. Results. Three dimensions of safety climate (i.e. company safety concern, senior managers’ safety concern, supervisors’ attitudes towards safety) were found to be positively associated with the individual ambivalence level, whereas the fourth one (i.e. work pressure) was negatively correlated with it. In turn, low levels of ambivalence were associated with a lower tendency to break the safety norms, even though the perception of a good safety climate also maintained a direct effect on unsafe behaviors.
2009
40
4
277
283
Effects of safety climate on safety norm violations: Exploring the mediating role of attitudinal ambivalence toward personal protective equipment / Cavazza, Nicoletta; Serpe, Alessandra. - In: JOURNAL OF SAFETY RESEARCH. - ISSN 0022-4375. - STAMPA. - 40:4(2009), pp. 277-283. [10.1016/j.jsr.2009.06.002]
Cavazza, Nicoletta; Serpe, Alessandra
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