Positive Organizational Behavior and Safety in the Offshore Oil Industry: Exploring the Determinants of Positive Safety Climate

Overview

Journal J Posit Psychol

Publisher Routledge

Date 2014 Jan 24

PMID 24454524

Citations 8

Authors

Sigurd W Hystad

Paul T Bartone

Jarle Eid

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Abstract

Much research has now documented the substantial influence of safety climate on a range of important outcomes in safety critical organizations, but there has been scant attention to the question of what factors might be responsible for positive or negative safety climate. The present paper draws from positive organizational behavior theory to test workplace and individual factors that may affect safety climate. Specifically, we explore the potential influence of authentic leadership style and psychological capital on safety climate and risk outcomes. Across two samples of offshore oil-workers and seafarers working on oil platform supply ships, structural equation modeling yielded results that support a model in which authentic leadership exerts a direct effect on safety climate, as well as an indirect effect via psychological capital. This study shows the importance of leadership qualities as well as psychological factors in shaping a positive work safety climate and lowering the risk of accidents.

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