Definition
Safety outcomes are measured through safety-related events like accidents, injuries, or fatalities (Christian et al. 2009). Safety behavior or safety-related behavior encompass positive behavior (e.g., confronting someone when they are breaking a safety procedure) and negative behavior (e.g., taking short cuts to increase productivity at the risk of safety; Beus et al. 2015a). An employee’s safety performance is often broken down into safety compliance (i.e., safety-related behaviors required by the organization) and safety participation (i.e., voluntary behaviors that do not contribute to one’s personal safety but supported safety in the larger organizational context; Christian et al. 2009).
Introduction
One of the most controversial hypotheses in occupational health and safety was the introduction of the notion of the accident prone personality (Vernon 1918). In...
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Thibault, T., Kelloway, E.K. (2017). Workplace Safety. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_803-1
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