TY  - JOUR
AB  - Companies are being encouraged to adopt a positive organisational safety culture in order to safeguard their operations against accidents. The viability of a positive safety culture within the context of a diverse workforce, characterised by a reduced number of permanent employees, supplemented with more contingent and contract workers, is considered. This review summarises theoretical and empirical evidence of the likely effects of changing employment arrangements on safety attitudes and behaviours, and implications for organisational safety culture. It is argued that it will be more difficult to integrate employees with diverse working arrangements, compared to a workforce of permanent employees, into a corporate safety culture. Human resource management techniques and practices are identified as ways of developing and maintaining positive safety attitudes across all types of employees. The need for further empirical work is discussed.
VL  - 32
IS  - 1
SN  - 0048-3486
DO  - 10.1108/00483480310454718
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/00483480310454718
AU  - Clarke Sharon
PY  - 2003
Y1  - 2003/01/01
TI  - The contemporary workforce: Implications for organisational safety culture
T2  - Personnel Review
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 40
EP  - 57
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -