Injury Center Second Term Seminar Series: Occupational Safety
Each academic term, the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy offers a graduate seminar course on various injury topics. Seminars are open to all. Students pursuing the Certificate in Injury and Violence Prevention are required to register for 305.861.71, Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy, for all four terms (see Certificate for more details).
Each academic term, the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy offers a graduate seminar course on various injury topics. Seminars are open to all.
For more information, visit the event page:
https://qa.publichealth.jhu.edu/node/308701.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 2024-12-09 17:10 2024-12-09 18:20 UTC use-title Location Zoom
About the Event
Hosted by the Center for Injury Research and Policy, the seminar series is designed to advance your understanding of injury, violence, and resulting disability as public health problems. Each term the seminar has a unique focus, including for example, foundational issues, current research, methodological approaches, unmet needs and emerging topics, as well as the application of policy, law and practice for injury and violence prevention. Students hear from leading experts in the field and read literature provided to accompany each presentation. All seminars will be offered via Zoom; links will be provided at the beginning of each term.
Seminars are held every Monday, October 28 through December 16 from 12:10 - 1:20 p.m. ET via Zoom
December 9, 2024
Safety Climate as a Leading Indicator of Workplace Safety
Emily (Yueng-hsiang) Huang, PhD
Professor
Industrial-Organizational/Occupational Health Psychology
Oregon Health & Science University
Safety climate is defined as employees’ shared perceptions of the company's safety policies, procedures, and practices and the overall importance and “true” priority of safety at work. In the last 40 years, scientific literature has demonstrated that safety climate is among the strongest predictors of safety behaviors and of injury data in workgroups and entire companies. Safety climate identifies employees’ perceptions (i.e., as seen through the eyes of employees) about the real or true priority of safety as opposed to its formally espoused priority by company management. In the safety field, safety climate is used to proactively identify safety problem areas and evaluate intervention effects over time. There will be three main topics in my talk: (1) reviewing the nature and importance of safety climate; (2) describing my prior and current research on the development and validation of various climate scales (including the Total Worker Health Climate Scale and the Respectful Workplace Climate Scale); and (3) discussing the future plans of my organizational climate research.