Workplace safety

What is it about?

Research on workplace safety has been increasing in recent years and has expanded understanding of workplace safety in many ways. However, there has been a lack of integration in the safety literature that has prevented the field from progressing as far as it should. Consequently, the purpose of this paper was to synthesize workplace safety research across its varied outlets to show what we know about safety, and correspondingly, what we still do not know. We did so by (1) summarizing general theoretical expectations regarding how various individual and contextual factors affect safety outcomes (e.g., safety behavior, accidents), and then (2) comparing these expectations with actual research findings to show researchers where our knowledge is deficient and thus provide a path for future research to follow.

Featured Image

Why is it important?

This paper highlights both what we know about workplace safety and what we do not know. By specifying where knowledge is deficient, this paper's purpose is to help guide safety researchers in a way that maximizes the future contributions of their work to the field of workplace safety.