Safety climate: new developments in conceptualization, theory, and research.

Although the important role of safety climate in safety outcomes has been established and many studies have been done by scholars in different disciplines and across different cultures, there are still gaps in the literature. The articles in this Special Issue explore the topics of new developments in the conceptualization of safety climate and occupational/industry-focused studies of safety climate, with the goal of identifying different challenges and findings that arise within or across various occupations or industries. We are pleased to have a closing article by Dr. Dov Zohar on "Thirty Years of Safety Climate Research: Reflections and Future Directions."

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[3]  H S Shannon,et al.  Creating safer and healthier workplaces: role of organizational factors and job characteristics. , 2001, American Journal of Industrial Medicine.

[4]  Dov Zohar,et al.  Safety climate: Conceptual and measurement issues. , 2011 .

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[6]  Ian Glendon,et al.  Safety culture: Snapshot of a developing concept , 2008 .

[7]  D. Zohar.  A group-level model of safety climate: testing the effect of group climate on microaccidents in manufacturing jobs. , 2000, The Journal of applied psychology.

[8]  Fred A. Manuele,et al.  An Overview of ANSI/AIHA Z10‐2005: The American National Standard for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems , 2007 .

[9]  D. Zohar.  Safety climate in industrial organizations: theoretical and applied implications. , 1980, The Journal of applied psychology.

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[11]  Marion Gillen,et al.  Perceived safety climate, job demands, and coworker support among union and nonunion injured construction workers. , 2002, Journal of safety research.

[12]  Jill C. Bradley,et al.  Workplace safety: a meta-analysis of the roles of person and situation factors. , 2009, The Journal of applied psychology.

[13]  Peter Y Chen,et al.  Safety climate and self-reported injury: assessing the mediating role of employee safety control. , 2006, Accident; analysis and prevention.

[14]  Aleck Ian Glendon,et al.  Safety climate factors, group differences and safety behaviour in road construction , 2001 .

[15]  D. Zohar.  Modifying supervisory practices to improve subunit safety: a leadership-based intervention model. , 2002, The Journal of applied psychology.

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