• Title/Summary/Keyword: Safety Climates

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The Effect of Organizational Culture and Safety Climates on Safety Behavior and Accidents: Focused on the metro train drivers (조직문화와 안전풍토가 안전행동 및 사고에 미치는 영향: 도시철도 기관사를 중심으로)

  • Ro, Choon-Ho;Shin, Tack-Hyun;Lee, Yong-Mann;Gu, Seung-Hwan;Kim, Seung-Tae
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.91-99
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    • 2014
  • This study highlights the theme of human error of train drivers, conducting empirical analysis on the relationship between organizational culture, safety climates, safety behavior, and accident. The empirical test results based on questionnaires received from 223 train drivers working at A subway firm indicated that relationship conflict and psychological reward as the elements of organizational culture variables showed a significant positive effect on CEO philosophy, communication, and boss's leadership. And only boss's leadership showed a positive influence on safety behavior, which in turn showed a significant negative relationship with accidents.

- Improving industrial safety in small business: from the socio-psychological point of view - (중소기업의 산업안전 제고방안 - 사회 심리적 접근을 중심으로 -)

  • Ahn Kwan Young
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.11-24
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    • 2004
  • Recently occupational safety and health literatures begin to emphasize the influence of social, organizational or psychological context. Based on this research trend, this paper tried to review the relationship between safety climates and safety compliance. Based on the responses from 385 manufacturing workers, this paper reviewed the relationships among safety climates, safety motivation, and safety compliance. The results of statistical analysis showed that all safety climate factors(management involvement, leadership, safety training, precaution activities, safety system) have affirmative effects on safety motivation and safety compliance. Also, safety motivation appeared to have mediating effects on the relationship between 5 safety climate factors and safety compliance. Especially it appeared to have full mediating effects on the relationship between safety training/ safety system and safety compliance.

Improving industrial safety in small business: from the socio-psychological point of view (중소기업의 산업안전 제고방안 - 사회심리적 접근을 중심으로 -)

  • An Gwan Yeong
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.183-188
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    • 2004
  • Recently occupational safety and health literatures begin to emphasize the influence of social, organizational or psychological context. Based on this research trend, this paper tried to review the relationship between safety climates and safety compliance. Based on the responses from 385 manufacturing workers, this paper reviewed the relationships among safety climates, safety motivation, and safety compliance. The results of statistical analysis showed that all safety climate factors(management involvement, leadership, safety training, precaution activities, safety system) have affirmative effects on safety motivation and safety compliance. Also, safety motivation appeared to have mediating effects on the relationship between 5 safety climate factors and safety compliance. Especially it appeared to have full mediating effects on the relationship between safety training/ safety system and safety compliance.

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A Structural Analysis of Causality between Safety Leadership and Related Factors in the Metro Driver Organization (도시철도 기관사조직의 안전리더십과 관련요인 간의 인과관계 구조분석)

  • Kang, Keun-Sik;Shin, Tack-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.105-113
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    • 2017
  • This study highlights the theme of safety leadership in railway organization, conducting empirical analysis on the relationship between safety climates, safety leadership, safety behavior, and accident. The empirical test results based on questionnaires received from 223 train drivers working at A subway firm indicated that relationship between CEO's safety philosophy, and safety communication showed a significant positive effect on boss's safety leadership. And boss's safety leadership showed a positive influence on observation belonging to safety behavior, which in turn showed a significant negative relationship with mistake. However, mistake, observation and violation were shown that there are no relationship with accidents.

Emerging issues and new frameworks for wind loading on structures in mixed climates

  • Solari, Giovanni
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.295-320
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    • 2014
  • Starting from an overview on the research on thunderstorms in the last forty years, this paper provides a general discussion on some emerging issues and new frameworks for wind loading on structures in mixed climates. Omitting for sake of simplicity tropical cyclones and tornadoes, three main aspects are pointed out. The first concerns the separation and classification of different intense wind events into extra-tropical depressions, thunderstorms and gust fronts, with the aim of improving the interpretation of the phenomena of engineering interest, the probabilistic analysis of the maximum wind velocity, the determination of the wind-induced response and the safety format for structures. The second deals with the use of the response spectrum technique, not only as a potentially efficient tool for calculating the structural response to thunderstorms, but also as a mean for revisiting the whole wind-excited response in a more general and comprehensive framework. The third involves the statistical analysis of extreme wind velocities in mixed climates, pointing out some shortcomings of the approaches currently used for evaluating wind loading on structures and depicting a new scenario for a more rational scheme aiming to pursue structural safety. The paper is set in the spirit of mostly simplified analyses and mainly qualitative remarks, in order to capture the conceptual aspects of the problems dealt with and put on the table ideas open to discussion and further developments.

The Effects of Health, Cognition, and Safety Climate on Safety Behavior and Accidents: Focused on Train Drivers (건강, 인지 및 안전풍토가 안전행동과 사고에 미치는 영향: 철도기관사를 중심으로)

  • Lee, Yong Man;Shin, Tack Hyun;Park, Min Kyu
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.331-339
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    • 2013
  • This study highlights the theme of human error emerging as a critical issue in the railroad industry, conducting exploratory research on the effects of health, cognition, and safety climates on safety behavior and accidents using an empirical method. The statistical results based on questionnaires received from 204 train drivers indicate that psychological fatigue, cognitive failure, and internal locus of control as individual variables and CEO philosophy and behavior of immediate boss as organizational variables have significant relationships with safety behavior, while cognitive failure, CEO philosophy, behavior of immediate boss, and education were found to be significant variables with respect to accidents. Furthermore, unsafe behavior such as mistakes and violations showed negative effects on near misses and responsibility accidents, respectively. Based on these results, effective alternatives and countermeasures needed to mitigate human error were posited.

Empirical Study Based on the Neal, Griffin, and Hart's Safety Climate Model (Neal, Griffin, and Hart 안전분위기 모형의 실증적 적용에 관한 연구)

  • Ahn Kwan-Young;Park Rho-Kook
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.7 no.5
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    • pp.107-117
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    • 2005
  • Zohar(1980) emphasized the influence of social, organizational, and psychological context in occupational safety and health study. With this research trend, Neal, Griffin, and Hart(2000) developed a sequential safety climate model. In this paper, author examined the usability of their model the relationships among safety climates, safety knowledge, safety motivation, and safety performance(safety compliance and safety participation). The author conducted a survey to 207 manufacturing workers, and the chief results of statistical analysis are as follows : 1) the leadership has positive effects on safety knowledge and motivation, 2) the precaution activities has only positive on safety knowledge, 3) the safety system has only on safety motivation, 4) the safety knowledge and motivation have positive effects on safety compliance and participation.

The Effects of Stress Response on Safety Behavior : Moderating Effect of Safety Climate (스트레스 반응이 안전행동에 미치는 효과: 안전 분위기의 중재효과)

  • Lee, Jae-Hee;Moon, Kwang-Su;Oah, She-Zeen
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.31-39
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of stress response on safety behavior and to explore moderating effect of safety climate between stress response and safety behavior. 224 workers were asked to respond to the questionnaires that measured various demographic variables, stress response, safety climates and safety behaviors. A hierarchical regression was conducted to identify variables that had significant relationships with safety behavior and to examine moderating effect of safety climate between stress response and safety behavior. Results indicated that the depression response significantly predicted safety behavior. It was found that the safety climate was also a significant predictor for safety behavior. In addition, safety climate had a moderating effect on the relation between depression and anger responses and safety behavior.

The Relationship Between Safety Climate and Safety Performance, and the Moderating Effect of Age (안전분위기와 안전성과의 관계 및 연령의 조절효과)

  • Ahn, Kwan-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.20 no.4 s.72
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    • pp.122-129
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    • 2005
  • With Zohar(1980)'s research on safety climate and industrial safety, occupational safety and health literatures begin to emphasize the influence of organizational context. Based on this research trend, this paper tried to review the relationship between individual/ organizational factors and occupational accidents. Based on the responses from 294 manufacturing workers, this paper reviewed the relationships among safety climates, safety performance, and age. The results of statistical analysis showed that all safety climate factors have affirmative effects on safety participation and safety attitudes negative effect on accident number, and job load affirmative effect on accident number. Job load and management commitment showed interactive effects on accident number with age.

The effect of job burnout on safety action, and the moderating effect of safety climate in Korean Air Force (공군조종사의 직무소진이 안전행동에 미치는 효과와 안전분위기의 조절효과에 관한 연구)

  • Woo, Sang Cheon;Ahn, Kwan Young
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.57-66
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    • 2015
  • This paper reviewed the effect of job burnout on safety outcomes, and the moderating effect of safety climate in Korean Air Force. The prevalence of burnout in air force pilots has not been determined and reviewed. It is also unknown whether pilots' burnout may affect their safety outcomes(safety action & compliance). The primary objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of burnout and it's effect on safety outcomes. For cross-sectional survey, 910 questionnaires were sent to pilots in air force, and 722 questionnaires among them were returned effectively. The questionnaire was divided into 4 parts examining pilots' demographic factors, job burnout, safety outcomes, and safety climates. To test and review proposed hypotheses, hierarchical multiple regression analysis was used. The results of statistical analysis appeared as follow; 1) EE(emotional exhaustion) and RPA(reduced personal accomplishment) effected negatively on safety action. 2) EE and RPA effected negatively on safety compliance. 3) EE effected more positively on safety action in higher SS(superior support) group than in lower SS group. 4) RPA effected more positively on safety compliance in higher SS(superior support) group than in lower SS group. 5) RPA effected more positively on safety action in higher CW(coworker support) group than in lower CW group.