Safety climate and its relationship with furniture companies’ safety performance and workers’ risk acceptance

摘要

This study aims to analyse the relationship between safety climate and the level of riskacceptance, as well as its relationship with workplace safety performance. The sampleincludes 14 companies and 403 workers. The safety climate assessment wasperformed by the application of a Safety Climate in Wood Industries questionnaireand safety performance was assessed with a checklist. Judgements about riskacceptance were measured through questionnaires together with four other variables:trust, risk perception, benefit perception and emotion. Safety climate was found to becorrelated with workgroup safety performance, and it also plays an important role inworkers’ risk acceptance levels. Risk acceptance tends to be lower when safetyclimate scores of workgroups are high, and subsequently, their safety performance isbetter. These findings seem to be relevant, as they provide Occupational, Safety andHealth practitioners with a better understanding of workers’ risk acceptance levels andof the differences among workgroups.