The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Occupational Safety and Workplace Health

• A Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Psychology focusing on occupational safety and workplace health.
• The editors draw on their collective experience to present thematically structured material from leading thinkers and practitioners in the USA, Europe, and Asia Pacific
• Provides comprehensive coverage of the major contributions that psychology can make toward the improvement of workplace safety and employee health
• Equips those who need it most with cutting-edge research on key topics including wellbeing, safety culture, safety leadership, stress, bullying, workplace health promotion and proactivity

Sharon Clarke is Professor of Organizational Psychology and Head of the Organizational Psychology group at Manchester Business School, UK. Her research interests are in occupational safety, health and wellbeing, particularly safety leadership, climate and culture. She is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology and the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. She is also on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Stress Management.

Tahira M. Probst is a Professor of Psychology at Washington State University Vancouver, USA. Her research focuses on occupational health and safety, with a particular interest in the psychosocial antecedents of accident underreporting. She is currently co-Editor of Stress & Health and an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Military Psychology and the Journal of Business and Psychology.

Frank Guldenmund is a Lecturer in the Safety Science and Security Group at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He works primarily in the field of occupational safety, where his research involves modelling and assessing the quality of safety management systems. Within this context he developed an interest in the topic of safety culture, into which he has conducted research for two decades.

About the Editors vii

About the Contributors viii

Foreword by Professor Lois E. Tetrick xiv

Series Editor Preface xvi

Railway Children xviii

1 The Psychology of Occupational Safety and Workplace health 1
Sharon Clarke, Tahira M. Probst, Frank Guldenmund, and Jonathan Passmore

Part I Occupational Safety 13

2 Personality and Individual Differences 15
Mickey B. Smith, Patti Jordan, and J. Craig Wallace

3 The Mediating Effects of Behavior 38
Jeff Foster and Stephen B. Nichols

4 The Influence of Peer Norms 61
Sílvia Agostinho Silva and Carla Santos Fugas

5 Safety Leadership 83
Jennifer H. K. Wong, E. Kevin Kelloway, and Daniel W. Makhan

6 Trust-Based Approaches to Safety and Productivity 111
Stacey M. Conchie, Helena E. Woodcock, and Paul J. Taylor

7 Jobs and Safety Behavior 133
Nik Chmiel and Isabelle Hansez

Part II Workplace Health and Well-Being 155

8 The Job Demands-Resources Model 157
Toon W. Taris and Wilmar B. Schaufeli

9 Working Hours, Health, and Well-Being 181
Michael P. O’Driscoll and Maree Roche

10 Exposure to Aggression in the Workplace 205
Morten Birkeland Nielsen, Helge Hoel, Dieter Zapf, and Ståle Einarsen

11 Proactivity for Mental Health and Well-Being 228
Francesco Cangiano and Sharon K. Parker

12 Employee Well-Being and Safety Behaviors 251
Jonathon R. B. Halbesleben and Tom Bellairs

13 Organizational Climate 272
Sara Guediri and Mark A. Griffin

Part III Improving Occupational Safety and Workplace Health in Organizations 299

14 Behavior-Based Approaches to Occupational Safety 301
E. Scott Geller and Zechariah J. Robinson

15 Safety Training 327
Michael J. Burke and Caitlin E. Smith Sockbeson

16 Safety Climate and Supervisory-Based Interventions 357
Gil Luria

17 Workplace Health Promotion 377
Arla Day and Thomas Helson

18 Psychosocial Safety Climate 414
Amy Zadow and Maureen F. Dollard

19 Organizational Safety Culture 437
Frank Guldenmund

20 Patient Safety Culture 459
Andrea Bishop, Mark Fleming, and Rhona Flin

21 Managing Uncertainty in High-Risk Environments 485
Gudela Grote

22 Risk Management 506
A. Ian Glendon

Index 530

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