• DOI:10.1037/0021-9010.91.4.946
• Corpus ID: 11623458

A study of the lagged relationships among safety climate, safety motivation, safety behavior, and accidents at the individual and group levels.

@article{Neal2006ASO,
  title={A study of the lagged relationships among safety climate, safety motivation, safety behavior, and accidents at the individual and group levels.},
  author={Andrew Neal and Mark A. Griffin},
  journal={The Journal of applied psychology},
  year={2006},
  volume={91 4},
  pages={
          946-53
        }
}

• A. Neal, M. Griffin
• Published 2006
• Psychology, Business
• The Journal of applied psychology

The authors measured perceptions of safety climate, motivation, and behavior at 2 time points and linked them to prior and subsequent levels of accidents over a 5-year period. A series of analyses examined the effects of top-down and bottom-up processes operating simultaneously over time. In terms of top-down effects, average levels of safety climate within groups at 1 point in time predicted subsequent changes in individual safety motivation. Individual safety motivation, in turn, was associated with subsequent changes in self-reported safety behavior. In terms of bottom-up effects, improvements in the average level of safety behavior within groups were associated with a subsequent reduction in accidents at the group level. The results contribute to an understanding of the factors influencing workplace safety and the levels and lags at which these effects operate.