Restorative Environments and Safety at Work
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 14640
Special Issue Editors
Interests: research design; psychometrics and data analysis in psychology; well-being at work; psychosocial risks at work; safety climate; environmental psychology; restorative environments
Interests: environmental psychology (environmental aesthetics; perception; cognition; and behavior); active living research; research design and data analysis
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Interests: wellbeing and safety at work; work related stress; psychometrics and data analysis in psychology; environmental psychology
Interests: proactive management of workplace safety; safety management systems and accident prevention; prosocial behavior and safety citizenship in the workplace; mindful organizing; team-working and safety communication; work motivation; safety leadership; psychosocial acceptance of new it technologies in the workplace
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Restorative environments, that is, environments that facilitate the recovery of resources (biological, cognitive, psychological, and social) in individuals, have become an important research field in environmental psychology. An increasing number of studies from different areas indicate that exposure to natural environments can improve people’s wellbeing. Recent trends in design—based on this well-established literature regarding the role of nature in enhancing wellbeing—try to use biophilic design to reduce stress and improve performance at work. Is there any empirical evidence, however, of the role of restorative environments in enhancing safety at work?
This Special Issue focuses on a specific kind of performance, that is, safety performance. From a behavioral perspective, safety performance has been traditionally conceptualized distinguishing between safety compliance (the behavioral adhesion to the formal safety protocols and regulations in the workplace) and safety participation (the active individual contribution in support to the organizational safety programs). More recently, further categories have been proposed, differentiating between prosocial and proactive safety citizenship behaviors.
We invite safety researchers from many perspectives to share empirical research on the role of nature in affecting safety performance and safety outcomes in general, at work. It could be interesting to merge the theoretical perspectives in organizational psychology focused on safety at work with research on restorative environments.
Dr. Margherita Pasini
Prof. Dr. Jack Nasar
Dr. Margherita Brondino
Dr. Matteo Curcuruto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- restorative environments
- safety behavior
- workplace design
- safety culture and safety climate
- organizational sustainability
- accident prevention
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