title: An assessment of safety climate, job satisfaction and turnover intention relationships using a national sample of workers from the USA.
abstract: The association between safety climate, job satisfaction and turnover intention has not been thoroughly researched. This research is needed so that safety researchers and practitioners can begin to delineate the impact of safety on organizational and business outcomes. A path analysis was completed using data from a national sample of workers from the USA (n = 1525). The overall fit of the model was excellent and analyses determined that both training and resource adequacy positively affected safety climate and job satisfaction. Safety climate also positively influenced job satisfaction. Both safety climate and job satisfaction were negatively associated with respondents' turnover intention. In the study, the relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention is reiterated in a sample of workers across many industries. This study is novel because it is one of the first studies to confirm that turnover intention is reduced with increased safety climate in a diverse sample of workers.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Applied Health Science , Indiana University School of Public Health - Bloomington , USA.
authors.forename: Todd D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States
keywords: job satisfaction; occupational safety; safety climate; training; turnover intention