New Employee Safety: Risk Factors and Management Strategies

Christopher D. B. Burt is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and Director of the Masters in Applied Psychology program, at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His current research interests cover the psychological associations between trust and safety, including the relationship between trust and employee helping behaviors, the development of safety-specific trust in new employees, and the influence of trust on employee safety voicing. He has published a book on managing the public’s trust in nonprofit organizations, and over 60 refereed articles in US, British, Australian and New Zealand journals.