Monash Injury Research Institute, Monash University, Building 70, VIC 3800, Australia.
Accid Anal Prev. 2012 Mar;45:29-38. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2011.11.003. Epub 2011 Dec 26.
Occupational driving crashes are the most common cause of death and injury in the workplace. The physical and psychological outcomes following injury are also very costly to organizations. Thus, safe driving poses a managerial challenge. Some research has attempted to address this issue through modifying discrete and often simple target behaviours (e.g., driver training programs). However, current intervention approaches in the occupational driving field generally consider the role of organizational factors in workplace safety. This study adopts the A-B-C framework to identify the contingencies associated with an effective exchange of safety information within the occupational driving context. Utilizing a sample of occupational drivers and their supervisors, this multi-level study examines the contingencies associated with the exchange of safety information within the supervisor-driver relationship. Safety values are identified as an antecedent of the safety information exchange, and the quality of the leader-member exchange relationship and safe driving performance is identified as the behavioural consequences. We also examine the function of role overload as a factor influencing the relationship between safety values and the safety information exchange. Hierarchical linear modelling found that role overload moderated the relationship between supervisors' perceptions of the value given to safety and the safety information exchange. A significant relationship was also found between the safety information exchange and the subsequent quality of the leader-member exchange relationship. Finally, the quality of the leader-member exchange relationship was found to be significantly associated with safe driving performance. Theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed.
职业驾驶事故是工作场所最常见的死亡和伤害原因。受伤后的身体和心理后果也给组织带来了巨大的经济损失。因此，安全驾驶对管理层来说是一个挑战。一些研究试图通过修改离散的、通常是简单的目标行为（例如，驾驶员培训计划）来解决这个问题。然而，职业驾驶领域的当前干预方法通常只考虑组织因素在工作场所安全中的作用。本研究采用 A-B-C 框架来确定与职业驾驶环境中有效安全信息交换相关的权变因素。本多层次研究利用职业驾驶员及其主管的样本，考察了主管-驾驶员关系中安全信息交换的相关权变因素。安全价值观被确定为安全信息交换的前因，领导-成员交换关系的质量和安全驾驶绩效被确定为行为后果。我们还研究了角色过载作为影响安全价值观与安全信息交换之间关系的因素的作用。层次线性建模发现，角色过载调节了主管对安全重视程度的感知与安全信息交换之间的关系。安全信息交换与随后的领导-成员交换关系质量之间也存在显著关系。最后，发现领导-成员交换关系的质量与安全驾驶绩效显著相关。讨论了这些结果的理论和实践意义。
