HealthPartners Institute, Bloomington, Minnesota (Dr Parker, Mr Yamin, Dr Xi, Mr Gordon); School of Public Health, University of New England (Dr Most); Maine Employers Mutual Insurance Company, Loss Control Division (Mr Stanley), Portland, Maine.
J Occup Environ Med. 2017 Dec;59(12):1172-1179. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000001166.
This manuscript assesses safety climate data from the National Machine Guarding Program (NMGP)-a nationwide intervention to improve machine safety.
Baseline safety climate surveys were completed by 2161 employees and 341 owners or managers at 115 businesses. A separate onsite audit of safety management practices and machine guarding equipment was conducted at each business.
Safety climate measures were not correlated with machine guarding or safety management practices. The presence of a safety committee was correlated with higher scores on the safety management audit when contrasted with those without one.
The presence of a safety committee is easily assessed and provides a basis on which to make recommendations with regard to how it functions. Measures of safety climate fail to provide actionable information. Future research on small manufacturing firms should emphasize the presence of an employee-management safety committee.
本文评估了国家机器防护计划（NMGP）的安全氛围数据，这是一项旨在改善机器安全的全国性干预措施。
115 家企业的 2161 名员工和 341 名业主或经理完成了基线安全氛围调查。在每家企业都进行了安全管理实践和机器防护设备的单独现场审核。
安全氛围措施与机器防护或安全管理实践没有相关性。与没有安全委员会的企业相比，安全委员会的存在与安全管理审核的更高分数相关。
安全委员会的存在很容易评估，并为其功能提供了建议的基础。安全氛围的衡量标准未能提供可操作的信息。未来对小型制造企业的研究应强调员工-管理层安全委员会的存在。
