Penilaian iklim keselamatan persekitaran kerja terhadap komuniti kakitangan kerajaan di Putrajaya

Abstract

Safety climate is a term which refers to perceptions that workers share about safety of their work environment, in which it may affect the safety performance of any organization. This study was conducted to analyze the safety climate at the Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry (MOA) in Putrajaya through perceptions on the handling of safety aspects by management and employees based on the seven dimensions of the safety climate. The safety climate dimensions are (i) management's priorities, commitments and management safety efficiency, (ii) enhancement of safety aspects of management, (iii) management safety justice, (iv) employee safety commitment, (v) safety precautions and risks are not accepted by employees, (vi) communication, learning and trust in colleague's competencies and (vii) employee beliefs on the effectiveness of the safety system. The method used was using a quantitative approach with the distribution of questionnaires of 205 respondents at the MOA. This survey was conducted using the Nordic Occupational Safety Climate Questionnaire (NOSACQ-50) which is a diagnostic tool to evaluate the status of an organization's safety climate. Data is finally analyzed descriptively through mean and percentage. The result showed that overall the level of safety climate at MOA was fairly low. Evaluation on three dimensions of safety handling by the management was fairly high for safety justice dimension, fairly low for safety priority, commitment and competence dimension and low for safety empowerment dimension. Further evaluation on four dimensions of safety handling by the workers showed a high level of safety climate for trust in the efficacy of safety systems dimension, fairly high for safety commitment dimension and safety communication, learning and trust in co-worker's safety competence dimension and fairly low for safety priority and risk non-acceptance dimension. The analysis of this study also revealed that there were significant differences in safety climate by age group and educational level of the respondents. Therefore, this study proposed safety policy formulation, hazard identification, risk assessment and determining control, establishment of Occupational Safety and Health Committee, safety communication, safety training and change in safety behaviour norms in order to improve safety climate at MOA.