Safety Climate in MT Mining: A Case Study

A safety climate case study was carried out at a surface metal mine where investigators administered the Liberty Mutual Short Scale Safety Climate Survey to 365–368 miners to measure safety climate in consecutive years. Following the baseline safety climate survey in 2019, Foundations for Safety Lea...

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Published in:Minerals & metallurgical processing 2021, Vol.38 (5), p.1861-1875
Main Authors: Murphy, Ty, Aldossari, Hadi, Birkenbuel, Lorri, Rosenthal, Scott, Autenrieth, Daniel, McGivern, Michael, Gilkey, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Case studies
Engineering
Evaluation
Leadership
Materials Engineering
Metallic Materials
Mineral Resources
Mining accidents & safety
Safety
Training
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Summary:A safety climate case study was carried out at a surface metal mine where investigators administered the Liberty Mutual Short Scale Safety Climate Survey to 365–368 miners to measure safety climate in consecutive years. Following the baseline safety climate survey in 2019, Foundations for Safety Leadership (FSL) training was conducted with 81 middle to upper management employees at the mine site. Investigators found statistically significant differences in the pre vs. posttraining FSL assessment scores of the middle to upper management employees who attended the training. The follow-up safety climate evaluation was compared to baseline scores and revealed no significant improvement. The overall baseline company safety climate score of 76.38 increased minimally to 76.50 ( p -value = 0.616). Investigators also evaluated differences in safety climate between the company’s three major divisions (operations, maintenance, and administration). Both years administration had the highest mean score and operations had the lowest mean score. The authors attributed the statistically significant differences found among the three major divisions to various dissimilarities in their work environments.
ISSN:2524-3462
2524-3470
DOI:10.1007/s42461-021-00472-1