New Risk Management Study Findings Have Been Reported by Y.H. Huang and Co-Researchers (Does talking the talk matter? Effects of supervisor safety…

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New Risk Management Study Findings Have Been Reported by Y.H. Huang and Co-Researchers (Does talking the talk matter? Effects of supervisor safety communication and safety climate on long-haul truckers' safety performance)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- A new study on Risk Management is now available. According to news originating from Hopkinton, Massachusetts, by VerticalNews correspondents, research stated, "This study examines the distinct contribution of supervisory safety communication and its interaction with safety climate in the prediction of safety performance and objective safety outcomes. Supervisory safety communication is defined as subordinates' perceptions of the extent to which their supervisor provides them with relevant safety information about their job (i.e., top-down communication) and the extent to which they feel comfortable discussing safety issues with their supervisor (i.e., bottom-up communication)."

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research, "Survey data were collected from 5162 truck drivers from a U.S. trucking company with a 62.1% response rate. Individual employees' survey responses were matched to their safety outcomes (i.e., lost-time injuries) six months after the survey data collection. Results showed that the quality of supervisor communication about safety uniquely contributes to safety outcomes, above and beyond measures of both group-level and organization-level safety climate. The construct validity of a newly-adapted safety communication scale was demonstrated, particularly focusing on its distinctiveness from safety climate and testing a model showing that communication had both main and moderating effects on safety behavior that ultimately predicted truck drivers' injury rates."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Our findings support the need for continued attention to supervisory safety communication as an important factor by itself, as well as a contingency factor influencing how safety climate relates to safety outcomes."

For more information on this research see: Does talking the talk matter? Effects of supervisor safety communication and safety climate on long-haul truckers' safety performance. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2018;117():357-367. Accident Analysis and Prevention can be contacted at: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Accident Analysis and Prevention - www.journals.elsevier.com/accident-analysis-and-prevention/)

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Y.H. Huang, Liberty Mutual Grp, Risk Control Serv, Hopkinton, MA 01748, United States. Additional authors for this research include R.R. Sinclair, J. Lee, A.C. McFadden, J.H. Cheung and L.A. Murphy.

Keywords for this news article include: Hopkinton, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America, Risk Management.