A correlation among safety leadership, safety climate and safety performance

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 307-318

  Wu, Tsung Chih ^a   Chen, Chi Hsiang ^a   Li, Chin Chung ^a  

^a HUNGKUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Canonical correlation analysis; Path analysis; Safety climate; Safety leadership; Safety performance

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

PATH ANALYSIS; SAFETY CLIMATE; SAFETY LEADERSHIP;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 43149100084     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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