Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, North Dakota State University, United States.
Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, United States.
J Safety Res. 2020 Dec;75:150-154. doi: 10.1016/j.jsr.2020.09.002. Epub 2020 Sep 22.
This study identifies determinants of safety climate at agricultural cooperatives.
An extensive survey was designed to build upon past research done in collaboration with DuPont (Risch et al., 2014). In 2014 and 2015, the survey was administered to 1930 employees at 14 different agricultural cooperatives with 154 locations. Injury incidence data were also collected from each location to better understand the overall health and safety environment in this sector. An ordered probit model is used to identify variables that are associated with better safety climates.
Safety system components such as discipline programs, inspection programs, modified duty programs, off-the-job safety training programs, and recognition programs are positively related to individual safety climate for both managerial employees and nonmanagerial employees. Variables representing an employee's agricultural background, distance between their workplace and childhood home, and formal education are not associated with managerial safety climate. However, agricultural background and childhood home distance are associated with nonmanagerial safety climate.
Improving occupational health and safety is a priority for many agricultural cooperatives. Lower safety climate emerges as nonmanagerial employees have more experience with production agriculture and work nearer to their home community. Practical applications: Employees of agricultural cooperatives face a host of health and safety challenges that are likely to persist into the future. The safety system components associated with safety climate indicate that continuous feedback is important for improving occupational health and safety. Occupational health and safety programming should also acknowledge that many employees have experiences that influence their attitudes and behaviors.
本研究确定了农业合作社安全氛围的决定因素。
本研究设计了一项广泛的调查，以在与杜邦公司合作进行的过往研究（Risch 等人，2014 年）的基础上进一步展开。2014 年和 2015 年，向 14 家不同农业合作社的 1930 名员工和 154 个地点分发了调查问卷。还从每个地点收集了伤害发生率数据，以更好地了解该行业的整体健康和安全环境。采用有序概率模型确定与更好的安全氛围相关的变量。
安全系统组件，如纪律程序、检查程序、修改职责程序、在职外安全培训计划和认可计划，与管理员工和非管理员工的个人安全氛围呈正相关。代表员工农业背景、工作场所和童年家庭之间的距离以及正规教育的变量与管理安全氛围无关。然而，农业背景和童年家庭距离与非管理安全氛围相关。
改善职业健康和安全是许多农业合作社的首要任务。非管理员工的生产农业经验更多，工作地点离家更近，安全氛围较低。实际应用：农业合作社的员工面临着许多可能持续到未来的健康和安全挑战。与安全氛围相关的安全系统组件表明，持续的反馈对于改善职业健康和安全很重要。职业健康和安全规划还应认识到，许多员工的经历会影响他们的态度和行为。
