Safety climate and injuries: An examination of theoretical and empirical relationships

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 713-727

  Beus, Jeremy M ^a   Payne, Stephanie C ^a   Bergman, Mindy E ^a   Arthur, Winfred ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Injury; Meta analysis; Organizational safety climate; Psychological safety climate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INJURY; META ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SAFETY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; SAFETY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77954648650     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019164     Document Type: Article

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