Safety Climate in the Houston Fire Department

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dc.contributor.authorDawson, Laurenen_US
dc.contributor.authorNiznik, Aaronen_US
dc.contributor.authorPotter, Danen_US
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-08T21:09:51Zen_US
dc.date.available2025-05-08T21:09:51Zen_US
dc.date.issued2025en_US
dc.description.abstractIn summer 2023, the Houston Fire Department (HFD) partnered with Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research in order to better understand the safety climate of its department. In the workplace, safety climate refers to employees’ shared perceptions of their organization’s safety policies, procedures, and practices, and the types of behaviors that are supported and rewarded by leadership. Safety climate is predictive of actual safety behaviors in the workplace as well as safety-related outcomes, such as injuries, fatalities, and near-misses (Jiang et al., 2018; Beus et al., 2010). By better understanding the climate at its stations, HFD sought to take steps to improve its safety culture in order to create a safer workplace for its first responders, whose jobs often place them in unsafe situations.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDawson, L., Niznik, A., & Potter, D. (2025). Safety Climate in the Houston Fire Department. Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research. https://doi.org/10.25611/E9ZQ-B792en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.25611/E9ZQ-B792en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/118339en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherRice University Kinder Institute for Urban Researchen_US
dc.rightsCopyright ©2025 by Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Researchen_US
dc.titleSafety Climate in the Houston Fire Departmenten_US
dc.typeReporten_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
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