Safety climate and self-reported injury: Assessing the mediating role of employee safety control

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 425-433

  Huang, Yueng Hsiang ^a   Ho, Michael ^b   Smith, Gordon S ^a   Chen, Peter Y ^c  

^a LIBERTY MUTUAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SAFETY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Employee safety control; Safety climate; Workplace injury

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EMPLOYEE SAFETY CONTROL; ORGANIZATIONAL SAFETY; SAFETY CLIMATE; WORKPLACE INJURY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33644927234     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2005.07.002     Document Type: Article

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