抄録
The present paper reports results of a questionnaire-based survey on safety climate in truck transportation organizations. Responses were collected from approximately 1000 drivers of 49 truck transportation companies in Japan. To elicit dimensions of safety climate, principal component analysis was applied to the entire sample of the questionnaire responses. The analysis yielded nine safety climate factors with 46% of cumulative variance accounted for. There were significant differences in several dimensions of safety climate between employment conditions, e.g., regular employees vs. non-regular drivers, and between working types such as differences in driving areas or distances. We made correlation analysis of each dimension of safety climate with safety outcome by use of actual data of annual incident statistics collected from ten companies which participated in the survey. Significant correlations were observed for several dimensions with the rate of injured incidents. The results may suggest that the more positive overall safety climate an organization has the lower an accident risk becomes on the road. It is also implied that drivers’ risk awareness and team-oriented views positively contribute to safety level in truck transportation.
| 本文言語 | English |
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| ホスト出版物のタイトル | Advances in Occupational, Social, and Organizational Ergonomics |
| 出版社 | CRC Press |
| ページ | 268-278 |
| ページ数 | 11 |
| ISBN（電子版） | 9781439835098 |
| ISBN（印刷版） | 9781439835074 |
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| 出版ステータス | Published - 1 1月 2010 |