Exploratory Study on Safety Climate in Malaysian Automotive Manufacturing

Abstract

Safety climate scrutiny has been given attention by the organization in increasing productivity and efficiency in the workplace. The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between safety climate construct factors and safety climate. Safety climate measurement as developed by Vinodkumar and Bashi was used and distributed to the selected respondents in the national automotive manufacturing plant. Internal consistency of six safety construct factors and correlation between safety construct factors and safety climate were validated using reliability analysis and Pearson correlation, respectively. The survey instrument scores had acceptable overall internal consistency (a = 0.913). The correlation analysis indicated that only two factors in safety construct factors have significant with safety climate. Both factors are enforcement of regulation and procedure of safety and safeness of work environment. The finding of this study provides a useful framework for the organization in practicing safety climate. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijosh.v3i2.6101

Safety Climate and Safety Behavior in the Laboratory among University Students / Iklim Keselamatan dan Gelagat Selamat di dalam Makmal dalam Kalangan Pelajar Universiti

“…Antara sektor pekerjaan yang terlibat ialah pembuatan (Clarke 2006;Paolillo, Silva, Carvalho, & Pasini, 2020), pemprosesan bahan kimia (Vinodkumar & Bhasi 2009;, pembinaan (Newaz, Davis, Jefferies, & Pillay, 2019;Choudhry, Fang & Mohamed, 2007) dan pendidikan (Marin et al, 2019;Salazar-Escoboza et al, 2020;Steward et al, 2016). Manakala di Malaysia, kajian berkaitan iklim keselamatan dan gelagat selamat banyak berfokus dalam sektor perindustrian (Bahari & Clarke, 2013;Zakaria, Che Hassan, Hamid, & Sukadarin, 2020), automotif (Rahlin, Omar, Muda, & Endut, 2013), pembuatan (Idris, Dollard, & Winefield, 2011) dan kesihatan (Abdullah, Spickett, Rumchev, & Dhaliwal, 2009;Loh, Idris, & Dollard, 2019). Namun, kajian mengenai iklim keselamatan merupakan satu perkara baharu dalam sektor pendidikan lebih-lebih lagi melibatkan universiti di Malaysia.…”

Organizational Safety Climate Factor Model in the Urban Rail Transport Industry through CFA Analysis

“…The study conducted is also unique in nature that is not focused on organizational constructs as the basis for the selection of safety climate dimensions. Malaysia is a developing country and of course the beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions of workers are different from other developed countries [50,51]. Although there is already an index of safety climate assessment been proposed in Malaysia by Rahlin et al [52], however, the main dimensions of safety climate that adapted to the work culture of an organization need to be studied and developed [53].…”

Influence of respondent type on relationships between safety climate and safety performance in manufacturing firm

“…In some studies, this theme is divided into two different factors, one concerned with management commitment and the other with supervisor attitude. 5,7,14,17,18,26,29,35,[40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48] There are many questionnaires which included supervision as an individual factor, thus emphasizing the significance of supervisors in establishing and improving the workplace surroundings and consequently the SC for their activities. The skill of supervision in controlling the performance of workforce is a factor of the greatest importance in productive injury/accident prevention.…”

“…This theme has appeared in prior papers with the same or similar name. 3,7,17,18,29,41,46,[51][52][53][54] Personal protective equipment (PPE) is something utilized by a person to reduce the hazards to the one's health or safety, and contains broad types of clothing and safety equipment. PPE includes boots, face masks, hard hats, ear plugs, respirators, gloves, safety harnesses, reflective clothing, and so on.…”

“…Workplace, workload, and WP, or production pressure, are very common themes in SC surveys, and for good reason. It has emerged only in a few previous studies as a separate theme, 5,17,26,29,[45][46][47]54,56 but a review of items clearly shows that it is a central issue, although the items may be included by factors like management/ supervision, worker's commitment, and so on. When time and resources become stretched, WP is very likely to influence the SC at the workplace.…”