The influence of individual differences on organizational safety attitudes

Workplace accidents cost organizations and the economy billions of dollars annually, disabling and injuring millions of employees. Employee attitudes toward safety have been shown to relate to safe workplace behavior. In an effort to determine what contributes to stronger employee attitudes toward safety, the authors examined the relationships between safety attitudes and a wide array of individual differences reflecting preferences and tendencies toward risk and control. Using a sample of 190 engineering and occupational safety students from two universities, the authors found that agreeableness, conscientiousness, prevention regulatory focus, and fatalism related significantly to all six safety attitudes examined. Regression analyses demonstrated that agreeableness, prevention focus, and fatalism significantly related to safety attitudes when controlling for the other individual differences. This study illustrates the utility of examining individual differences when predicting safety-related attitudes.

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  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VF9-4SV6PF7-1/2/dfdab65e4586721a491bb2b1d3364dff
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier
• Authors:
  • Henning, Jaime B
  • Stufft, Carolyn J
  • Payne, Stephanie C
  • Bergman, Mindy E
  • Mannan, M Sam
  • Keren, Nir
• Publication Date: 2009-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 337-345
• Serial:
  • Safety Science
  • Volume: 47
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0925-7535
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09257535

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Behavior; Control; Employees; Industrial accidents; Occupational safety; Regression analysis; Risk assessment; Safety
• Uncontrolled Terms: Differences
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01122715
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 27 2009 7:49AM