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Review of strategies to improve workplace safety through ethical climates

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dc.contributor.author Rathnayake, U
dc.contributor.author Karunasena, G
dc.contributor.editor Sandanayake, YG
dc.contributor.editor Karunasena, GI
dc.contributor.editor Ramachandra, T
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-10T06:22:13Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-10T06:22:13Z
dc.date.issued 2016-07
dc.identifier.citation Rathnayake, U., & Karunasena, G. (2016). Review of strategies to improve workplace safety through ethical climates. In Y.G. Sandanayake, G.I. Karunasena & T. Ramachandra (Eds.), Greening environment, eco-innovations & entrepreneurship (pp.389-398). Ceylon Institute of Builders. https://ciobwcs.com/downloads/WCS2016-Proceedings.pdf en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/17251
dc.description.abstract Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) is an important aspect in every type of organisations. Healthy workers are an important asset to the organisation and safety issues causes various losses to the organisation. Therefore, it is vital to formulate strategies to improve the occupational health and safety in every type of organisations. It has been found out that 80% of the workplace accidents are due to employee behaviours. Moreover, according to past researches, ethical climate of the organisation affects the individual employee behaviours. Ethical climate refers to the shared perceptions of organisational members regarding what is considered correct behaviour in the organisation and how the organisation deals with ethical issues. Ethical climate guides the employees to determine what is considered right and wrong behaviour at work. Therefore, it is much clear that there is a strong link between ethical climates and the workplace safety. Thus, this study discusses how the ethical climates affect the employees’ work place safety behaviours and ultimately on the occupational health and safety. The literature review shows that among the nine types of ethical climates, principal-local climates and benevolent- local climates have the highest positive effect on workplace safety behaviours. Therefore, the organisations should encourage these types of ethical climates in their organisations and can enhance the safety performance by aligning their safety initiatives with ethical climates. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Ceylon Institute of Builders en_US
dc.relation.uri https://ciobwcs.com/downloads/WCS2016-Proceedings.pdf en_US
dc.subject Occupational health and safety en_US
dc.subject Ethical climates en_US
dc.subject Employee safety behaviours en_US
dc.title Review of strategies to improve workplace safety through ethical climates en_US
dc.type Conference-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Building Economics en_US
dc.identifier.year 2016 en_US
dc.identifier.conference 5th World Construction Symposium 2016 en_US
dc.identifier.place Colombo en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos pp. 389-398 en_US
dc.identifier.proceeding Greening environment, eco-innovations & entrepreneurship en_US
dc.identifier.email uthpalarathnayake@ymail.com en_US


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