Roles of safety climate and shift work on perceived injury risk: A multi-level analysis

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1088-1096

  Huang, Yueng Hsiang ^a   Chen, Jiu Chiuan ^b   DeArmond, Sarah ^c   Cigularov, Konstantin ^c   Chen, Peter Y ^c  

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

^b IL   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Perception of injury risk; Safety climate; Work shift

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

INJURY RISKS; SAFETY CLIMATES; SHIFT WORKERS; WORK SHIFTS;

RISK ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SAFETY; WORK SCHEDULE; WORKPLACE;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE; WORKPLACE;

EID: 34848888007     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2007.02.006     Document Type: Article

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