Mosher G A, Keren N, Freeman S A, Hurburgh C R
Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
J Agric Saf Health. 2013 Apr;19(2):125-34. doi: 10.13031/jash.19.9977.
The safety climate of an agricultural workplace may be affected by several things, including the level of trust that workers have in their work group supervisor and organizational management. Safety climate has been used by previous safety researchers as a measure of worker perceptions of the relative importance of safety as compared with other operational goals. Trust has been linked to several positive safety outcomes, particularly in hazardous work environments, but has not been examined relative to safety climate in the perennially hazardous work environment of a commercial grain elevator. In this study, 177 workers at three Midwest grain elevator companies completed online surveys measuring their perceptions of trust and safety at two administrative levels: organizational management and work group supervisors. Positive and significant relationships were noted between trust and safety climate perceptions for organizational managers and for work group supervisors. Results from this research suggest that worker trust in organizational management and work group supervisors has a positive influence on the employees' perceptions of safety climate at the organizational and work group levels in an agricultural workplace.
农业工作场所的安全氛围可能受到多种因素的影响，包括工人对其工作小组主管和组织管理层的信任程度。以往的安全研究人员将安全氛围作为衡量工人对安全与其他运营目标相对重要性的认知指标。信任与若干积极的安全成果相关联，尤其是在危险的工作环境中，但在商业谷物升降机这种常年危险的工作环境中，尚未有人研究信任与安全氛围之间的关系。在本研究中，来自中西部三家谷物升降机公司的177名工人完成了在线调查，这些调查从组织管理和工作小组主管这两个管理层面衡量了他们对信任和安全的认知。研究发现，组织管理者和工作小组主管的信任与安全氛围认知之间存在积极且显著的关系。本研究结果表明，工人对组织管理和工作小组主管的信任对农业工作场所中员工在组织和工作小组层面的安全氛围认知有积极影响。
