PHWP: Abstract Detail: Safety climate and injuries: An examination of theoretical and empirical relationships

In this quantitative review, the authors seek to clarify the relationship between safety climate and worker injuries. The authors note that employee injuries were better predictors of organizational safety climate than safety climate was of injuries and that the injury-safety climate relationship was stronger for organizational climate than for psychological climate. Moderator analyses indicate that content contamination in safety climate measures increased the size of climate-injury relationships, content deficiency in climate measures reduced these effects, and the effect also decreased when injury data were collected over longer periods of time. The single best predictor of injuries on the job is perceived management commitment to safety.

Beus, J. M., Payne, S. C., Bergman, M. E., & Arthur, W., Jr. (2010). Safety climate and injuries: An examination of theoretical and empirical relationships. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95, 713-727.