Perceived Safety Culture and Occupational Risk Factors among women in Metal Industries: A Study in Turkey

Akalp, Gizem; Aytaç, Serpil; Yamankaradeni̇z, Nurettin; Çankaya, Oğuzhan; Gökçe, Ahmet; Tüfekçi, Ülviye

doi:10.1016/j.promfg.2015.07.640

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“…6331 and other legal regulations. It was also argued that female workers' risk awareness constituted the basis of safe behavior and that this safety culture was reflected even on home-family lives of female workers (Akalp et al 2015). In the qualitative (face-toface/focus group) method, participant female workers came to the recreational facility of the union after working hours and they were asked questions face-to-face in the focus group interviews which were carried out in the form of conversation.…”

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The Attribution Theory Of As a Psycho-Social Approach to thePerception of Occupational Health and Safety: A Focus GroupStudy Among Women Workers in Metal Industry

Aytaç¹,

Akalp²

2022

Europ. j. multidiscip. stud.

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Nowadays, women involved in working life with the industrial revolution provide their labor as much as men and are affected by the risk factors in the workplace as much as men. Women are more affected by the psychosocial risk factors because of gender roles and they are also more affect society because of important central role in the family. Psycho-social risks that is one of the occupational health and safety risk factors affect employee attitude and performance to work at least as much as the other risk factors. In this study, researchers aim that reveal awareness's about psychosocial risk factors in their workplace in metal industries in Turkey. In addition, negative attitudes of workers about occupational health and safety practices will be examined with attribution theories in social psychology. In this study, we used qualitative method. Data were collected with focus group study at eight different groups in two different days from woman member of Turkish Metal Union in Bursa city in Turkey. Totally 155 employees participated in the focus groups study. Job satisfaction, job stress, wellness, the relationship with coworkers and managers were evaluated in this study. This study was supported and funded (Project USIP (İ) 2014/7) by the Scientific Research Projects Commission of Uludag University cooperated with Turkish Metal Union. According to the obtained results, work stress emerges as an important psychosocial risk factor. In addition to, stress and lack of communication are important factors causing job dissatisfaction.

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The Attribution Theory Of As a Psycho-Social Approach to thePerception of Occupational Health and Safety: A Focus GroupStudy Among Women Workers in Metal Industry

Aytaç¹,

Akalp²

2022

Europ. j. multidiscip. stud.

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“…It is expected that this result arises from the fact that those who work in jobs requiring more strength have generally received less education and people who work in upper-level positions, such as managers, will have a certain awareness, due to their education. There is a strong relationship between safety awareness and risks experienced [38]. For this reason, improving the safety awareness of individuals is of utmost importance.…”

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Modeling the Factors That Affect Work Accidents with Binary Logistic Regression: Evidence from Turkey

Alkan¹,

Gültekin²

2021

Occupational Wellbeing

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Work accidents remain important worldwide. Work accidents and diseases influence the whole country economically, socially, and psychologically. The aim of this study was to determine the socio-demographic and economic factors that were influential for individuals in Turkey who experienced work accidents resulting in injuries. In this study, the Turkey Health Survey microdata set conducted by the Turkish Statistical Institute was employed including data from 35,019 employees who participated in the survey between 2008 and 2016. The factors affecting individuals' work accidents were determined by binary logistic regression analysis. According to analysis results, it was determined that the variables of gender, age, education, occupation, health, psycho-social support/being depressed, and use of alcohol have an impact on individuals having work accidents. Methods such as young employees receiving a good education, individuals completing their education before starting working, early intervention in diseases by regular employee checkups , the reduction of stress in employees' working life, reduction of the negative effects of the job environment on employees, preservation of a healthy work-life balance, and supporting employees in their attempt to give up various bad habits such as smoking through rehabilitation can play significant roles in reducing work accidents.

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“…In addition, the tool calls attention to trends in an organization's safety performance, which would identify information on which area the intervention program should be focused (Abdullah et al, 2016. The safety climate tool could provide benchmarking data to assist the organization's performance in safety in comparison with other similar companies (Abdullah et al, 2016;Akalp et al, 2015;Chib & Kanetkar 2014;Bhattacharya, 2015;Boughaba, 2014). Benchmarking can be used as part of a commitment to continuous improvement for the organization in addition to routine methods such as surveys or questionnaires, observations and interviews or a combination of all (Abdullah et al, 2016).…”

Section: Safety Culture Assessment and Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The principal tool for measuring the safety climate is the use of survey (questionnaire) as most safety research reveals (Abdullah et al, 2016;Akalp et al, 2015;Chib & Kanetkar 2014;Bhattacharya, 2015;Boughaba, 2014). These surveys usually are comprised of questions that measure the participants perceptions, values, beliefs, and attitudes as well as the dimensions…”

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Safety Climate and Culture Review: A Case Study of Water and Power Project

Almalki

Zakaria²,

Balkhyour

et al. 2019

JSS

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Systematic management of occupational safety and health (OSH) issues requires attention in many aspects like regulatory, technical, organizational and managerial. Approaching OSH from an organizational culture perspective can also facilitate achieving sustainable improvements in organizational OSH performance. OSH culture helps in seeing and organizing safety from different perspectives and should not be reduced to a matter of culture only. The knowledge, information and data gathered is expected to be very useful in the process of improving OSH-related procedures, practices and policies, eventually leading to enhanced OSH performance. This paper attempts to describe a cultural approach towards understanding organizational OSH. It will help the readers, professionals, authorities, and policy makers in understanding OSH from a cultural point of view, and how to assess this OSH culture as part of the of organizational improvement process. The aim is to disseminate latest information on this complex topic, trying to build a bridge between practice and research. The scientific literature shows these two terms, safety climate and safety culture, are often interchangeable, but they are distinct but related concepts. The word "safety culture" is a complex and persistent feature reflecting fundamental assumptions, expectations, norms and values, which are also represented by societal culture while "safety climate" best pronounces attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions of employees classically measured by surveys and observations. Safety culture measurement requires detailed investigation of how members in an organization interact to form a shared view of safety. This paper explores the ideas of an organization’s safety climate and culture for the purpose of determining which is more advantageous for accurately describing a "state of safety”. Preliminary results of a case study from a water and power project from Saudi Arabia has been added.

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Perceived Safety Culture and Occupational Risk Factors among women in Metal Industries: A Study in Turkey

Cited by 13 publications

References 14 publications

The Attribution Theory Of As a Psycho-Social Approach to thePerception of Occupational Health and Safety: A Focus GroupStudy Among Women Workers in Metal Industry

The Attribution Theory Of As a Psycho-Social Approach to thePerception of Occupational Health and Safety: A Focus GroupStudy Among Women Workers in Metal Industry

Modeling the Factors That Affect Work Accidents with Binary Logistic Regression: Evidence from Turkey

Safety Climate and Culture Review: A Case Study of Water and Power Project

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