For more than a decade we have witnessed an increased research and enterprise interest in not only a focus on physical, technical, mechanical and organizational elements in preventing working environment accidents (1), but also in incorporating employee’s shared safety perceptions, as well as the enterprises approach to managing these various types of risks in their contribution to accidents and injuries (2).
From a statistical point of view, there are often far too few work accidents in a company to establish the effects of safety initiatives (3). Newer research regarding occupational accidents and injuries focus on the feasibility of applying positive and proactive safety measures like safety observations(4), daily safety communication (5;6) and safety climate measures compared to more reactive measures like accident and injury frequencies (7). In a recent meta-analytic review, Clarke (8) argues that creating a more positive safety climate possibly will lead to a reduction in work accidents.
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