Franken, Esme, Onnis, Leigh-Ann, Blackwood, Kate, Brunetto, Yvonne, Bentley, Tim, Farr-Wharton, Ben, Hernandez Grande, Aglae, O'Neill, Sharron, and Huuskes, Lee (2024) Who is responsible for workplace safety?: Senior Leaders’ perceptions of control, influence and felt responsibilities. In: [Presented at the British Academy of Management Conference]. From: BAM 2024: British Academy of Management Conference: achieving transformation for greater good: Societal, organisational and personal barriers and enablers, 2-6 September 2024, Nottingham, UK.

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Abstract

[Extract] The question of who is responsible for workplace safety has plagued workers, managers, and scholars for decades (DeJoy, 1994; Freitas et al., 2019; Nelson, 2001). This question has undoubtedly become more complex and ambiguous since the rise in emphasis of psychosocial safety, as both an expected and legislative requirement for workplaces. For example, research on psychosocial safety is very well-established, but it was not until much more recently that psychosocial safety has started to become entrenched in legislation (SafeWork Australia, 2022). Thus, the protection of both physical and psychosocial safety, at least in the Australian context, are legal responsibilities of employers. With responsibility tightly interlinked with control (Schlenker et al., 1994), the differing degrees of perceived control between actors – such as workers, managers, and senior leaders – within an organization are likely to then influence felt responsibility for workplace safety

Item ID:	83940
Item Type:	Conference Item (Presentation)
Keywords:	felt responsibility, locus of control, leadership, prosocial
Related URLs:	https://www.bam.ac.uk/
Funders:	Centre for Work Health & Safety NSW (CWHS)
Projects and Grants:	CWHS Grant number: RE_093
Date Deposited:	26 Feb 2025 01:33
FoR Codes:	35 COMMERCE, MANAGEMENT, TOURISM AND SERVICES > 3505 Human resources and industrial relations > 350505 Occupational and workplace health and safety @ 80% 35 COMMERCE, MANAGEMENT, TOURISM AND SERVICES > 3505 Human resources and industrial relations > 350503 Human resources management @ 20%
SEO Codes:	23 LAW, POLITICS AND COMMUNITY SERVICES > 2305 Work and labour market > 230506 Workplace safety @ 100%
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