Creating safer workplaces: assessing the determinants and role of safety climate
Journal of Safety ResearchPublished 1 January 2004
David M. DeJoy, Bryan S. Schaffer, Mark G. Wilson, Robert J. Vandenberg, Marcus M. Butts
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Abstract
These results are discussed in terms of other recent findings on safety climate and the growing interest in understanding management and organizational factors in the context of workplace safety.
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