American journal of industrial medicine
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Safety climate, a group-level measure of workers' perceptions regarding management's safety priorities, has been suggested as a key predictor of safety outcomes. However, its relationship with actual injury rates is inconsistent. We posit that safety climate may instead be a parallel outcome of workplace safety practices, rather than a determinant of workers' safety behaviors or outcomes. ⋯ Safety management practices may be more important than workers' perceptions of safety climate as direct predictors of injury rates.