Methods: The research question for the study was: Does a relationship exist between the behavior of reporting occupational injuries and both self-perceived job control and safety citizenship sub-dimensions of action? This exploratory cross-sectional study used an employee perception questionnaire to examine self-reported perceptions of the behavior of occupational injury reporting, employee job control, and six safety citizenship sub-dimensions of action at two companies in the Midwestern region of the United States. The survey consisted of 34 items and used a 5-point Likert Scale to quantify the data gathered along with other demographic variables. Descriptive statistics and an ordinal logistic regression analysis were used to investigate the relationship between the behavior of reporting occupational injuries, job control, and the six sub-dimensions of action of safety citizenship. The predictor variables were tested a priori to verify there was no violation of multicollinearity.

Results: Job control and one safety citizenship sub-dimension of action (i.e. whistle blowing) were included in the final statistical model.

Conclusions: Increasing the behavior of reporting occupational injuries requires management to increase the intrinsic safety motivation of their employees. Motivated employees are eager to gain needed safety knowledge to be proactive in their safety approach. A climate of teamwork and camaraderie can increase the proactive nature of employees and may lead to an increase in the safety citizenship action of whistleblowing.