Supportive psychosocial conditions

Supportive psychosocial conditions will have a positive causal effect on safety climate.
This relation may be observed as psychosocial conditions having a lagged effect on safety
climate in a longitudinal autoregressive model.
Also the way that safety climate may impact on safety behaviour deserves more in depth
study. The safety climate is considered a phenomenon at the group level, while behaviour is
an individual level phenomenon. The mechanism for how these phenomena at different levels
interrelate has not yet been studied. We propose that the shared component of the safety
climate affects the individual perceptions of the safety climate, which in turn affect the
individual behaviour. We may then expect that both the unit level safety climate, and the
individual perceptions of the safety climate, will all have an impact on safety behaviour. We
therefore formulated a second set of hypotheses: