Currently, the US mining industry is encouraged, but not required to adopt a formal health and safety management system. Previous research has shown that the adoption of such systems has been more difficult in some subsectors of the mining industry than others. Given the interdependencies between management systems and safety climate in addition to their predictive utility of incidents, it is important to assess differences in the perceptions of safety climate among mining subsectors in the USA. If significant differences exist, then mining subsectors may not necessarily be able to adopt a one-size approach to system implementation. To that end, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health assessed mineworkers’ perceptions of several individual and organizational safety climate constructs. Participants consisted of 2945 mineworkers at coal, industrial mineral, and stone/sand/gravel mine sites throughout 18 states. Linear regressions were used to answer the research question. The results suggest that coal miners, in comparison to those miners in industrial mineral and stone/sand/gravel sectors, had significantly less favorable perceptions on each of the organizational climate constructs measured (i.e., organizational support, supervisor support and communication, coworker communication, engagement/involvement, and training) ( p < 0.001 in all cases). Importantly, these results parse out organizational indicators to show that perceptions are not only lower in one area of organizational or supervisor support. Rather, engagement, training, and communication practices were all significantly lower among coal miners, prompting considerations for these significant differences and actions that can be taken to improve system practices.

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探索采矿业安全氛围的差异

目前，鼓励但不强制美国采矿业采用正式的健康和安全管理体系。先前的研究表明，采用此类系统在采矿业的某些分部门比其他分部门更难。鉴于管理系统和安全氛围之间的相互依存关系以及它们对事故的预测效用，评估美国采矿分部门对安全氛围的看法差异非常重要。如果存在显着差异，那么采矿分部门可能不一定能够采用单一规模的方法来实施系统。为此，国家职业安全与健康研究所评估了矿工对几种个人和组织安全氛围结构的看法。参与者包括来自 18 个州的煤炭、工业矿物和石头/沙子/砾石矿场的 2945 名矿工。线性回归用于回答研究问题。结果表明，与工业矿物和石材/沙子/砾石行业的矿工相比，煤矿工人对每个衡量的组织氛围结构（即组织支持、主管支持和沟通、同事沟通、参与/参与和培训）（在所有情况下 p < 0.001）。重要的是，这些结果解析了组织指标，表明人们的看法不仅在组织或主管支持的某一领域较低。相反，煤矿工人的参与、培训和沟通实践都显着降低，