Safety climate, attitude and behaviour assessment among workers in manufacturing industry

• Main Authors: Issam, Sarah Aisyah, Zakaria, Junaidah, Sukadarin, Ezrin Hani, Hanifah, Mohd Shahril Abu
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Attitudes; Correlation; Industrial safety; Manufacturing; Risk management; Risk perception
• ISSN: 0094-243X; 1551-7616
• DOI: 10.1063/5.0189227

Safety climate is one of the critical aspects that can influence safety performance in an organisation. This study attempts to study safety climate, attitudes, and safety behaviour among workers in a manufacturing industry. A set of standardised questionnaires was used to assess studied variables among 82 selected manufacturing workers. The result shows that the highest mean score for safety climate is personal involvement (4.20), followed by management commitment (4.15), and safety communication (4.12). The mean scores for attitudes towards safety, risk perception, and cognitive bias were 4.25, 4.23, and 3.0 respectively. The correlation test shows that management commitment was only significantly related with attitude towards safety (r=0.371, p=0.001). Safety communication was found to be significantly correlated with attitude towards safety (r=0.284, p=0.01) and cognitive bias (r=0.263, p=0.017). Lastly, personal involvement was significantly correlated with attitude towards safety (r=0.319, p=0.004) and cognitive bias (r=0.245, p=0.027). This study shows that commitments from management in the form of a safety climate will encourage workers to be involved in safety and motivate them to comply with safety rules and procedures, which will reduce risk-taking among them.