The associations between safety culture and safety ...

Safety culture, advice and performance

The associations between safety culture and safety performance, health and wellbeing at an individual level, and safety culture, competent occupational safety and health advice, and safety performance at a corporate level

Report submitted to the IOSH Research Committee

Prof Andy P Smith and Dr Emma J K Wadsworth Cardiff University

research report

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Safety culture, advice and performance

The associations between safety culture and safety performance, health and wellbeing at an individual level, and safety culture, competent occupational safety and health advice, and safety performance at a corporate level

Report submitted to the IOSH Research Committee

Prof Andy P Smith and Dr Emma J K Wadsworth Centre for Occupational and Health Psychology Cardiff University 63 Park Place Cardiff CF10 3AS UK

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Contents

Lists of figures

4

List of tables

5

Acknowledgments

7

Abstract

8

Executive summary

9

1

Introduction

10

2

Literature review

13

3

Study design and methodology

16

4

Findings and results

20

5

Discussion

63

Appendices

Appendix 1: Selection of measures of performance, climate and advice

67

Appendix 2: Multivariate analyses

72

Appendix 3: General workers survey

74

References

76

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