Do perceptions of supervisors' safety responses mediate the relationship between perceptions of the organizational safety climate and incident rates in the construction supply chain?

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 234-241

  Lingard, Helen ^a   Cooke, Tracy ^a   Blismas, Nick ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lost time incidents; Medical treatment incidents; Safety climate; Supervisors' safety response

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION SUPPLY CHAIN; FREQUENCY RATE; INCIDENT RATES; LOST TIME INCIDENTS; LOST-TIME INJURY; MEDICAL TREATMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL SAFETY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; SAFETY CLIMATE; TOP MANAGEMENT; WORKGROUPS;

FACTOR ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUPPLY CHAINS;

SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

EID: 84858393801     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000372     Document Type: Article

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