Total Worker Health Leadership and Business Strategies Are Related to Safety and Health Climates in Small Business.

Int J Environ Res Public Health

Center for Health, Work & Environment and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, 13001 E. 17th Pl., 3rd Floor, Mail Stop B119 HSC, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.

Published: March 2020

AI Article Synopsis

  • The study examines how Total Worker Health (TWH) strategies affect employees' views on leadership commitment and workplace safety and health climates across 53 small businesses and 1271 workers.
  • It finds that strong leadership commitment to safety is crucial for a positive workplace safety climate, while TWH strategies have a notable connection to health climate when leadership supports worksite wellness.
  • The research suggests that enhancing leadership development in TWH could help improve both safety and health climates in workplaces.

Article Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Total Worker Health (TWH) business strategies and employee perceptions of leadership commitment and safety and health climates. Using data from 53 small enterprises and 1271 of their workers collected as part of the Small + Safe + Well (SSWell) Study, we confirm the primacy of the relationship between leadership commitment to safety and workplace safety climate. After accounting for leadership commitment to safety, business-reported policies and practices that promote the health, safety, and well-being of workers (i.e., TWH strategies) were no longer related to safety climate. In contrast, the relationship between TWH strategies and health climate were significantly associated with the level of small business leadership commitment to worksite wellness. Relatedly, our results demonstrate that leadership is a common correlate to both safety climate and health climate. Future research should investigate integrated TWH leadership development strategies as a means of simultaneously improving safety and health climates.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7143812PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17062142DOI Listing

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