A Conceptual Framework for Enhancing Safety Performance by Impact Cooperation Facilitation, Safety Communication and Work Environment: Jordanian Hospitals

Abstract

Safety in the workplace is essential to ensure organization survivability, constant operation and best work quality specifically in among the countries at the developing stage such as Jordan. Relatedly, safety performance is very crucial for organization performance measurement and corporate existence to practice safety management at workplace, and every level of organization structure. Thus, the need for enhancing safety at the work setting has been proposed by most scholars, industry practitioners and relevant stakeholders. Workers are exposed to a hazardous event at the workplace through chemical, ergonomic and biological exposures. Consequently, various degrees of accidents, injuries, and fatalities happened in the organization and lead to multiple levels of challenges to the organization and serve as indicator of poor safety performance within organization. Improvements in safety performance indicators are critical as they can help in improving organizational performance. The impact from poor safety performance indicator could be seen in various forms such as high medical bills, insurance costs and productivity losses. This paper develops a proposed safety performance framework for understanding safety management practices dimensions such as cooperation facilitation, and safety communication and feedback as antecedents of the work environment – the relationship of safety performance based on perceived social exchange theory (SET).

Emphasizes the Importance of Safety Behavior by Optimizing Safety Leadership and Safety Knowledge through a Safety Climate

“…One of the causes of accidents and occupational diseases is the implementation and supervision of K3 that has not been optimal, as well as the safety behavior of the industrial community in particular and the community in general that has not been optimal (Barakat Abuashour &;Hassan, 2019). The dominant cause of workplace accidents is operating errors due to management negligence interacting with unsafe actions and conditions (A. et al, 2016;Liu et al, 2012).…”

The Investigation of Safety Behavior in Logistic Companies of Malaysia

“…Henceforth, the researcher decided to embark on studying the contributing factors such as safety leadership and supervisor safety management roles to safety performance such as safety behavior [2,10]. However, the primary cause of accident has been identified as safety behavior [11][12][13]. Therefore, factors towards safety behavior had been intensively studied [14][15][16], where most of the studies measured safety performance by safety behavior.…”