Integrating safety attitudes and safety stressors into safety climate and safety behavior relations : the case of healthcare professionals in Abu Dhabi
Joint Authors
Uthman, Abd Allah
al-Faqih, Fatimah
Khalid, Khalizani
Source
Issue
Vol. 34, Issue 6 (30 Nov. 2019), pp.504-513, 10 p.
Publisher
Publication Date
2019-11-30
Country of Publication
Oman
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Topics
Abstract EN
Objectives How safety climates, safety attitudes, and safety behaviors are related remains unexplored in the literature, with no study so far investigating the moderating path of safety stressors between these variables.
We sought to understand the path through which safety climates may affect safety-behavior-related outcomes, such as safety compliance and participation, through the integration of safety attitudes.
Since this study is related to the safety-related perception-intention-behavior relationship, safety stressors are proposed as a moderator of this relationship.
Methods A total of 770 healthcare professionals working in public hospitals across Abu Dhabi were randomly selected for this study.
We used questionnaires covering demographic details, safety behaviors, safety climates, safety attitudes, and safety stressors to obtain the data.
Results The results revealed the partial mediating role of safety attitudes in the relationship between safety climate and safety behavior.
Additionally, safety stressors did not moderate the relationship between safety climates, safety attitudes, and safety behaviors, which has some interesting implications for healthcare professionals.
Conclusions The study suggests that safety attitudes may also regulate the impact of perceptions of management values regarding safety, policies, and procedures.
It is highly likely that healthcare professionals who experience a positive workplace safety climate will form positive safety attitudes that encourage safety behavior.
In addition, the homogeneous characteristics of healthcare professionals’ in the UAE may also offer the positive coping strategy that caused the insignificant moderating effect of safety stressors on the relationship between safety climates, safety attitudes, and safety behaviors.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Faqih, Fatimah& Khalid, Khalizani& Uthman, Abd Allah. 2019. Integrating safety attitudes and safety stressors into safety climate and safety behavior relations : the case of healthcare professionals in Abu Dhabi. Oman Medical Journal،Vol. 34, no. 6, pp.504-513.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-900486
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Faqih, Fatimah…[et al.]. Integrating safety attitudes and safety stressors into safety climate and safety behavior relations : the case of healthcare professionals in Abu Dhabi. Oman Medical Journal Vol. 34, no. 6 (Nov. 2019), pp.504-513.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-900486
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Faqih, Fatimah& Khalid, Khalizani& Uthman, Abd Allah. Integrating safety attitudes and safety stressors into safety climate and safety behavior relations : the case of healthcare professionals in Abu Dhabi. Oman Medical Journal. 2019. Vol. 34, no. 6, pp.504-513.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-900486
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 512-513
Record ID
BIM-900486