Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to test an initial model of safety climate for firefighting.
Relationships between safety climate, safety behaviors and firefighter injuries were …

Introduction: Limited research associated with safety climate has been completed within the
fire service. Given this dearth of information, the present study sought to identify a valid and …

Background Firefighting is a hazardous occupation and there have been numerous calls for
fundamental changes in how fire service organizations approach safety and balance safety …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive model of safety culture for
the US fire service. Design/methodology/approach–Based upon a modified version of …

Objectives: This research aims to provide guidance on means to bolster safe and effective
emergency response. Safe and effective performance among firefighters is key to protecting …

Background The impact of leadership on safety climate and safety outcomes has become an
important area of research in organizational, leadership and safety sciences. There is …

Purpose Understanding the climate of safety is a core initiative of the US fire service in its
quest to reduce injuries, fatalities, and toxic exposures linked to occupational disease. The …

PROBLEM: Safety professionals have increasingly turned their attention to social science for
insight into the causation of industrial accidents. One social construct, safety climate, has …

Relatively little previous research has investigated the meechanisms by which safety climate
affects safety behavior. The current study examined the effects of general organizational …

Our purpose in this study was to meta-analytically address several theoretical and empirical
issues regarding the relationships between safety climate and injuries. First, we …