The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Occupational Safety and Workplace Health [Hardcover]

• A Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Psychology focusing on occupational safety and workplace health.
• The editors draw on their collective experience to present thematically structured material from leading thinkers and practitioners in the USA, Europe, and Asia Pacific
• Provides comprehensive coverage of the major contributions that psychology can make toward the improvement of workplace safety and employee health
• Equips those who need it most with cutting-edge research on key topics including wellbeing, safety culture, safety leadership, stress, bullying, workplace health promotion and proactivity

About the Editors vii

About the Contributors viii

Foreword by Professor Lois E. Tetrick xiv

Series Editor Preface xvi

Railway Children xviii

1 The Psychology of Occupational Safety and Workplace health 1
Sharon Clarke, Tahira M. Probst, Frank Guldenmund, and Jonathan Passmore

Part I Occupational Safety 13

2 Personality and Individual Differences 15
Mickey B. Smith, Patti Jordan, and J. Craig Wallace

3 The Mediating Effects of Behavior 38
Jeff Foster and Stephen B. Nichols

4 The Influence of Peer Norms 61
S?lvia Agostinho Silva and Carla Santos Fugas

5 Safety Leadership 83
Jennifer H. K. Wong, E. Kevin Kelloway, and Daniel W. Makhan

6 Trust-Based Approaches to Safety and Productivity 111
Stacey M. Conchie, Helena E. Woodcock, and Paul J. Taylor

7 Jobs and Safety Behavior 133
Nik Chmiel and I