@article{2906,
  keywords = {Perceptions of safety climate, Safety communication, Safety performance, Safety silence motives, Workplace safety},
  author = {Archana Manapragada and Valentina Bruk-Lee},
  title = {Staying silent about safety issues: Conceptualizing and measuring safety silence motives.},
  abstract = {<p>Communication between employees and supervisors about safety-related issues is an important component of a safe workplace. When supervisors receive information from employees about safety issues, they may gain otherwise-missed opportunities to correct these issues and/or prevent negative safety outcomes. A series of three studies were conducted to identify various safety silence motives, which describe the reasons that employees do not speak up to supervisors about safety-related issues witnessed in the workplace, and to develop a tool to assess these motives. Results suggest that employees stay silent about safety issues based on perceptions of altering relationships with others (relationship-based), perceptions of the organizational climate (climate-based), the assessment of the safety issue (issue-based), or characteristics of the job (job-based). We developed a 17-item measure to assess these four motives, and initial evidence was found for the construct and incremental validity of the safety silence motives measure in a sample of nurses. </p>},
  year = {2016},
  journal = {Accid Anal Prev},
  volume = {91},
  pages = {144-56},
  month = {06/2016},
  issn = {1879-2057},
  doi = {10.1016/j.aap.2016.02.014},
  language = {eng},
}