دورية أكاديمية
THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY LEADERS’ PERSPECTIVES OF HIGHER EDUCATION SAFETY CULTURE
| العنوان: | THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY LEADERS’ PERSPECTIVES OF HIGHER EDUCATION SAFETY CULTURE |
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| المؤلفون: | Asfir, Zenebe |
| المصدر: | University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations |
| بيانات النشر: | Scholarly Commons |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | University of the Pacific: Scholarly Commons |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Educational leadership, higher education environmental health and safety, higher education environmental health and safety leader's perspectives, higher education management's role in safety culture, higher education safety culture, reciprocal safety culture model, safety culture, Education |
| الوصف: | To safeguard the health and well-being of faculty, students, staff, and the community is of moral imperative for higher education institutions. Likewise, protecting the environment is a socially sound practice. Furthermore, building and maintaining a positive safety culture is believed to contribute to productive environmental health and safety (EH&S) outcomes. Higher education EH&S leaders are at the center of universities’ efforts in maintaining a positive safety culture. The purpose of this inquiry was to study higher education EH&S leaders’ perspectives on safety culture and contribute to closing the academic literature gap in the higher education setting. Interviews and a survey were the data collection techniques. EH&S leaders of U.S. higher education institutions participated in the study. I used Cooper’s (2000, 2016) reciprocal safety culture model as a theoretical framework and a mixed methods research design to find answers to the research questions. The survey results revealed how EH&S leaders viewed different aspects of their operations, and findings from the interviews revealed the leaders’ lived experiences. For example, the quantitative study showed 100% of the participants strongly agree or agree that shaping the safety culture of their campus is part of their role. In addition, the qualitative data identified distinct strategies employed by leaders to shape the safety culture of their campuses. Four major themes were identified in the qualitative data. In the first theme, The Higher Education Safety Culture, the EH&S leaders reflected on their lived experiences and the importance of positive safety culture in accomplishing their goals. They mobilize their campus communities in a collective effort to achieve a healthy and safe working environment, minimize the impact on the environment, and remain compliant with regulatory requirements. The second theme, Higher Education Environmental Health and Safety Programs, stressed the plans and procedures the leaders and their ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| العلاقة: | https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3825Test; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/uop_etds/article/4822/viewcontent/Asfir_pacific_0173E_10752.pdfTest |
| الإتاحة: | https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3825Test https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/uop_etds/article/4822/viewcontent/Asfir_pacific_0173E_10752.pdfTest |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.590C77B4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |