Safety is becoming more and more an issue in warehouses. In the literature, effective measures leading to increased occupational health and safety have hardly been researched. Most research focuses on the impact of perceived safety-related leadership of managers and worker safety consciousness on ‘safety climate’ and workers’ safe behavior. We have carried out exploratory research into which me...

This paper aims to study the role of the safety leadership and of the proactive risk management in the improvement of occupational safety performance. To this end, the authors develop and test a model on a sample of 188 organisations located in Spain using the structural equation modelling technique. The results show the importance of employees’ safety behaviour in the improvement of safety out...

Safety leadership, defined as “the process of defining the desired state, setting up the team to succeed, and engaging in the discretionary efforts that drive the safety value” (Cooper, 2010a) is widely recognized to be critical (HSE, 2001), especially when the prevailing safety culture is weak (Martínez-Córcoles, Gracia, Ines, et al., 2011). A company’s safety culture is driven by the executiv...

Background & Aims of the Study: The implementation of safety principles in work environments can directly benefit both employees and the organization by reducing the mental and physical strain, reducing the risk of work-related injuries, and performance improvement. Thus, with the consideration and implementation of safety principles, and the creation of a positive safety climate, organizations...

The main goal of this paper is to construct three sets of road safety performance indicators, which are regional road safety performance indicators, urban road safety performance indicators and highway safety performance indicators, respectively. Fuzzy Delphi Method and Grey Delphi Method are applied to quantify experts’ attitudes to regional road safety, urban road safety and highway safety. C...

Construction projects are one of the most important economic sectors in the world. At the same time, these projects are one of the hazardous industries that cause many accidents resulting from injuries and deaths, occupational diseases, delay in time, environmental problems and other direct and indirect damages. While in many industries, the issue of health, safety and environment is meticulous...

Aim The aim of this work is to test the mediator role patient safety behaviour between culture and performance among nurses. Methods This cross-sectional study was carried out September December 2017 in nursing units 10 primary hospitals, two secondary hospitals tertiary Anhui Province, China. Results participants comprised 79 RNs from 147 242 hospitals. Most were female (97.6%) married (73.1%)...