Highlights We measure safety climate in the context of lone work characterizing long-haul truck drivers. We test distant leadership and psychological work ownership as climate antecedents for lone workers. We measure the effect of truck-driver climate perceptions on driving safety and subsequent hard-breaking events. We apply a newly developed trucking safety climate measurement scale in traffic safety research.

    Abstract The study was designed to test the effect of safety climate on safety behavior among lone employees whose work environment promotes individual rather than consensual or shared climate perceptions. The paper presents a mediation path model linking psychological (individual-level) safety climate antecedents and consequences as predictors of driving safety of long-haul truck drivers. Climate antecedents included dispatcher (distant) leadership and driver work ownership, two contextual attributes of lone work, whereas its proximal consequence included driving safety. Using a prospective design, safety outcomes, consisting of hard-braking frequency (i.e. traffic near-miss events) were collected six months after survey completion, using GPS-based truck deceleration data. Results supported the hypothesized model, indicating that distant leadership style and work ownership promote psychological safety climate perceptions, with subsequent prediction of hard-braking events mediated by driving safety. Theoretical and practical implications for studying safety climate among lone workers in general and professional drivers in particular are discussed.


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    Title :

    A mediation model linking dispatcher leadership and work ownership with safety climate as predictors of truck driver safety performance


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    Publication date :

    2013-09-01


    Size :

    9 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English