Safety Citizenship Behavior: A Complementary Paradigm to Improving Safety Culture Within the Organizational Driving Setting

Abstract

Driving for work has been identified as potentially one of the riskiest activities performed by workers within the course of their working day. Jurisdictions around the world have passed legislation and adopted policy and procedures to improve the safety of workers. However, particularly within the work driving setting, complying with legislation and the minimum safety standards and procedures is not sufficient to improve work driving safety. This chapter outlines the manner in which safety citizenship behavior can offer further improvement to work-related driving safety by acting as a complementary paradigm to improve risk management and current models and applications of safety culture.

Research on concepts associated with risk management and theoretical frameworks associated with safety culture and safety citizenship behavior are reviewed, along with their practical application within the work driving safety setting. A model incorporating safety citizenship behavior as a complementary paradigm to safety culture is proposed. It is suggested that this model provides a theoretical framework to inform future research directions aimed at improving safety within the work driving setting.

Citation

Wishart, D., Rowland, B. and Somoray, K. (2019), "Safety Citizenship Behavior: A Complementary Paradigm to Improving Safety Culture Within the Organizational Driving Setting", Ward, N.J., Watson, B. and Fleming-Vogl, K. (Ed.) Traffic Safety Culture, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 145-171. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78714-617-420191011