| Abstrakt: |
Safety voice is a proactive social exchange in which an employee speaks up about workplace safety-related issues with constructive intentions. Proactive safety models rely upon the "voice" of workers at all levels to convey safety-related ideas, opinions, and concerns in order to prevent incidents, reduce hazards, and improve overall safety in the work environment. Through the lens of social exchange theory, this study reports the results of a meta-analytic compilation of 50 independent studies consisting of 50,956 participants across the safety voice literature. Utilizing meta-analyses, meta-regressions, and meta-analytic path analyses, we test a series of hypotheses exploring the safety and non-safety factors associated with safety voice, and investigate how safety voice relates to workplace safety behaviors and outcomes. Most notably, findings suggest that safety voice 1) is significantly more prevalent when work environments, organizational leaders, and workers at all levels are safety- supportive, 2) is positively associated with safety compliance behavior, and 3) can help to explain employees' engagement in safety compliance behavior, beyond safety knowledge and safety motivation alone. These findings make an important contribution to our knowledge about workplace safety by identifying the nature of relationships among commonly studied correlates of safety voice and laying a foundation for future investigation into the role of safety voice in workplace safety processes. Specifically targeting the promotion of safety voice among the workforce enables organizations to take proactive and preventative measures to ensure that hazards and issues are addressed before they result in adverse safety outcomes such as accidents and injuries, making safety voice the cornerstone of sustainable safe workplaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
