The relationship of safety climate factors, decision making attitude, risk control, and risk estimate in Malaysian radiation facilities

Kasim, Hazmimi; Hassan, Che Rosmani Che; Hamid, Mahar Diana; Emami, Sina Davazdah; Danaee, Mahmoud

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2018.11.025

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“…Safety climate can be defined as employee perceptions in terms of values, attitudes, policies, and procedures that signal and indicate the importance of workplace safety (Zohar 1980;Probst et al, 2019). Given that safety climate has a positive effect on occupational safety and injury prevention (He et al, 2016;Kasim et al, 2019), this concept was been the focus of research by numerous authors. Their goal was to determine influential factors, both demographic and organizational (Alruqi et al, 2018;Newaz et al, 2019;Kim et al, 2019;Flatau-Harrison et al, 2020).…”

Section: Literature Overview On Safety Climatementioning

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Safety Climate in Project-Based Organizations: Multi-Criteria Analysis

Milijić

Stojanović

Mihajlović

et al. 2020

Manage: J. Sustainable Bus. Manage, Solutions Emerging Econ.

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Research Question: The aim of this paper is to determine the factors influencing safety climate in different industrial sectors in project-based organizations. Motivation: Systematic research on occupational safety is not so frequent in the Republic of Serbia. The lack of research that deals with safety climate in project-based organizations exploring the attitudes of employees in different industrial sectors is evident. In the research conducted by Milijic et al., (2013) a model for measuring safety climate factors was proposed and the following step is to identify the most important safety climate issues for each industrial sector as a key to fostering better safety performance. Chen et al. (2018a) concluded that engagement at all levels of the company is essential to fostering better safety performances as well as that safety awareness is the most important factor influencing workers' safety efficiency. The authors of the present paper seek those particular factors that adequately describe safety climate in project-based organizations by examining the attitudes of workers in different industrial sectors. Idea: The main idea of this paper is to evaluate and rank safety climate in different industrial sectors and different workplaces considering the following five factors of safety climate: Safety and competence awareness, Occupational safety management commitment, Safety training and tools, Safety practices and procedures and Organizational environment. Data: Safety climate analysis was conducted on a set of data collected as a part of a survey carried out in eleven project-oriented organizations operating in different industrial sectors on the territory of Serbia. Tools: This paper proposes a multi-criteria analysis of the data collected from a national survey using the Entropy-PROMETHEE-GAIA method. Findings: A complete ranking of safety climate in project-oriented organizations based on the opinions of employees in different industrial sectors resulted in Energy as the best-ranked sector. On the other hand, the worst-ranked sector is High-rise construction. The results of the complete ranking of safety climate in project-oriented organizations based on the opinions of employees at different workplaces in different industrial sectors showed that the best-ranked alternatives were manager working places. When it comes to production workers on projects, the most favorable safety climate is in energy workplaces and for non-productive workers, while the most favorable safety climate is on projects in the field of mechanical engineering. Contribution: Adopting the conclusions from the paper can, in practice, improve safety climate along with safety at work in project-based organizations.

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Section: Literature Overview On Safety Climatementioning

confidence: 99%

Safety Climate in Project-Based Organizations: Multi-Criteria Analysis

Milijić

Stojanović

Mihajlović

et al. 2020

Manage: J. Sustainable Bus. Manage, Solutions Emerging Econ.

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“…Management commitment focused on management's emphasis on the importance of safety to safety has been commonly reported in many studies and seems to form an important aspect of safety climate scale 17,18 followed by workers' involvement in safety 19,20 and safety communication. 21 Safety climate measures can be used as a diagnostic tool to discover employees' perceptions of the way that safety is being operationalized. 1,[22][23][24] Safety climate begins with an employee perception but then becomes shared among co-workers 2 and therefore individual's perception of safety climate can emerge into a group-level perception.…”

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“…Personal appreciation to risk had been identified as the most important factor that affects risk estimate, risk control measure, and decision making attitudes among industrial radiation workers in Malaysia. 21 An organization's basic assumption is important and can be explained through its attitude to safety. 1 Furthermore, the numbers of accidents reported in the manufacturing sector in Malaysia remained high at an average of 1303 accidents per year.…”

Section: Safety Culture and Climatementioning

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“…Safety climate survey tools may be used as leading and lagging indicators for safety performance and represent a common strategy for health and safety management systems in many industrial sectors. Management commitment focused on management's emphasis on the importance of safety to safety has been commonly reported in many studies and seems to form an important aspect of safety climate scale followed by workers' involvement in safety and safety communication …”

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“…Safety climate begins with an employee perception but then becomes shared among co‐workers and therefore individual's perception of safety climate can emerge into a group‐level perception. Personal appreciation to risk had been identified as the most important factor that affects risk estimate, risk control measure, and decision making attitudes among industrial radiation workers in Malaysia . An organization's basic assumption is important and can be explained through its attitude to safety .…”

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