OBJECTIVE Statistics indicate that employees commuting or travelling as part of their work are over-represented in workplace injury and death. Despite this, many organisations are unaware of the factors within their organisations that are likely to influence potential reductions in work-related road traffic injury.
METHODS This paper presents a multi-level conceptual framework that identifies health investment as the central feature in reducing work-related road traffic injury. Within this framework, we explore factors operating at the individual-driver, workgroup-supervisor and organisational-senior management levels that create a mutually reinforcing system of safety.
RESULTS The health investment framework identifies key factors at the senior manager, supervisor and driver levels to cultivating a safe working environment. These factors are High Performance Workplace Systems, Leader-member exchange and autonomy, trust and empowerment respectively. The framework demonstrates the important interactions between these factors and how they create a self-sustaining organisational safety system.
CONCLUSIONS The framework aims to provide insight into the future development of interventions that are strategically aligned with the organisation and target elements that facilitate and enhance driver safety, and ultimately reduce work-related road traffic injury and death.
Language: en
Keywords
driver behaviour, work-related drivers; driver safety; health investment framework; multi-level approaches to safety