Safety climate and driving behaviour: Differential effects on truck drivers’ violations and errors
Safety climate – the shared perceptions of safety’s importance within an organisation – is a strong predictor of aberrant driving behaviours. This study employs Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) on a sample of 110 tanker drivers at a major South African trucking company t...
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| description | Safety climate – the shared perceptions of safety’s importance within an organisation – is a strong predictor of aberrant driving behaviours. This study employs Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) on a sample of 110 tanker drivers at a major South African trucking company to model the relationship between safety climate and two classes of aberrant driving behaviours – errors and violations. A multilevel model measuring safety climate using organisation-level safety climate (OSC) and group-level safety climate (GSC) is followed, with OSC fully mediated by GSC in its effect on driver behaviour. The findings show safety climate has a significantly larger impact on driving violations than errors, as safety climate affects the driving behaviour largely through safety motivation, which has a greater impact on categorically intentional violation behaviours, as opposed to habitual, unintentional errors. The study also demonstrates that safety climate explains a larger portion of the variation in violations than errors, suggesting that violations may be more sensitive to changes in safety climate, supervisory behavioural integrity, and safety motivation. Interventions leveraging safety climate may thus be more effective at reducing violations than errors. Future research should investigate the precursors to driving errors, as addressing these may require remedial training rather than changes in safety climate to achieve substantial improvements. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-fc416ad540aa4ad5b3bd10c651e36fb02024-12-18T08:51:56ZengElsevierTransportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives2590-19822024-11-0128101272Safety climate and driving behaviour: Differential effects on truck drivers’ violations and errorsLaura Meyer0Leila Louise Goedhals-Gerber1Anneke de Bod2Department of Logistics, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa; Corresponding author.Department of Industrial Engineering, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South AfricaDepartment of Logistics, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South AfricaSafety climate – the shared perceptions of safety’s importance within an organisation – is a strong predictor of aberrant driving behaviours. This study employs Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) on a sample of 110 tanker drivers at a major South African trucking company to model the relationship between safety climate and two classes of aberrant driving behaviours – errors and violations. A multilevel model measuring safety climate using organisation-level safety climate (OSC) and group-level safety climate (GSC) is followed, with OSC fully mediated by GSC in its effect on driver behaviour. The findings show safety climate has a significantly larger impact on driving violations than errors, as safety climate affects the driving behaviour largely through safety motivation, which has a greater impact on categorically intentional violation behaviours, as opposed to habitual, unintentional errors. The study also demonstrates that safety climate explains a larger portion of the variation in violations than errors, suggesting that violations may be more sensitive to changes in safety climate, supervisory behavioural integrity, and safety motivation. Interventions leveraging safety climate may thus be more effective at reducing violations than errors. Future research should investigate the precursors to driving errors, as addressing these may require remedial training rather than changes in safety climate to achieve substantial improvements.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198224002586Safety ClimateDriving ViolationsTruck DriversDriving BehaviourPLS-SEM |
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| title | Safety climate and driving behaviour: Differential effects on truck drivers’ violations and errors |
| title_full | Safety climate and driving behaviour: Differential effects on truck drivers’ violations and errors |
| title_fullStr | Safety climate and driving behaviour: Differential effects on truck drivers’ violations and errors |
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| title_short | Safety climate and driving behaviour: Differential effects on truck drivers’ violations and errors |
| title_sort | safety climate and driving behaviour differential effects on truck drivers violations and errors |
| topic | Safety Climate Driving Violations Truck Drivers Driving Behaviour PLS-SEM |
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