Worplace Safety Improvement in Sme Manufacturing: A Government Intervention

Zulkifly, Syazwan Syah; Zain, Izani Mohd; Hasan, Nor Halim; Baharudin, Mohd Rafee

doi:10.20319/mijst.2018.42.2739

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“…Safety behavior has been identified as the primary cause of workplace mishaps, including SMEs in Malaysia (Khoo, Surienty, and Selamat 2016;Zulkifly et al 2018), and this study suggests that supervisory safety leadership in terms of safety coaching, safety concern, and safety monitoring could predict safety performance in terms of behavior., this study established a higher-order research framework of safety leadership and safety behaviour relationships which is mediated by safety knowledge and attitude. The development of this framework was based on previous literature (K. H. Fugas, Silva, and Meliá 2012) as well as theories, namely SLT and SCT (Bandura 1977(Bandura , 1999.…”

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“…The government of Malaysia, through the DOSH (Department of Occupational Safety and Health, Ministry of Human Resource Malaysia), has made tremendous efforts to address this issue by providing technical and compliance advice as well as conducting promotional activities aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that are failing to improve their OSH levels and prevent accidents and diseases. Occupational Safety and Health Strategic Planning for SMEs has been developed to assist small businesses in complying with occupational-related laws and overcoming resource constraints (Zulkifly et al 2018).…”

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Safety Leadership and Safety Knowledge-Attitude-Behaviour (KAB) in Malaysia’s Manufacturing SMEs: A Higher Order Two-Stage Approach of PLS-SEM

Zulkifly¹,

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2021

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.Most of the accident cases at work are caused by unsafe behaviour. Scholars have thus extensively researched factors of safe behavior.Safety leadership is stated as the most effective factor in safety behaviour. Besides, safety knowledge and safety attitudes are also found to influence safety behaviour. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nature of the relationship between safety leadership, safety knowledge, safety attitude, and safety behavior, which has been found to be limited or rare in previous research.A self-administered questionnaire was applied and was distributed randomly to 140 SME manufacturing workers and they were analysed using the structural equation modelling partial least squares (PLS-SEM). The results prove that safety leadership has a significant effect on safety knowledge, safety attitude, and safety behaviour, with safety knowledge and safety attitude mediating the safety leadership-safety behaviour relationship. Consequently, the results provide a more in-depth view of the relationship between safety leadership and safety knowledge-attitude-behaviour via adapting social-cognitive theory and social learning theory in solving safety issues in SME. This study also provides a starting point for researchers to better understand how effective safety leadership is provided by supervisors in terms of improving worker safety and safety knowledge-attitude-behaviour.

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Safety Leadership and Safety Knowledge-Attitude-Behaviour (KAB) in Malaysia’s Manufacturing SMEs: A Higher Order Two-Stage Approach of PLS-SEM

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2021

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“…The purpose of this research is to investigate how safety management techniques improve safety performance. More specifically, the logistics companies working to enhance their workplace safety and control the accidents rations actively [31,32]. In this regard, the current research is to investigate that how safety leadership and supervisor roles can affect positively the safety performance (behavior safety) in logistics sector of Malaysia.…”

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The Investigation of Safety Behavior in Logistic Companies of Malaysia

IMRAN

2023

Quality Production Improvement and System Safety

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Abstract. In Malaysia, industrialization and population growth have both contributed to an increase in workplace occupational injuries. The most recent statistics on reported accidents show that out of 10,000 employees, 99 have been directly involved in work-related accidents. Accidents do not occur by chance, thus there are multiple factors which are contributing to workplace accidents. It is important to spread safety awareness to employees inside the organization. The main objective of the current study is to investigate the relationship between safety leadership, supervisor safety roles and safety behavior in logistics companies of Malaysia. The study respondents included 160 employees from logistics companies of Malaysia. A partial least square equation modeling “Higher Order Two-Stage Approach” analysis was performed to assess the measurement and structural model involving variables of safety leadership, supervisor safety roles and safety behavior to draw the results. The results of the study revealed that safety leadership roles imposed by the managers have a significant effect on safety behavior, mediated by supervisors’ safety roles. Therefore, the findings of the study suggest that safety leadership and supervisor safety roles be implemented in logistics companies. These make employees more inclined to take part in safety initiatives which can make the workplace safer.

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“…Based on the statistics revealed by the Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH), manufacturing sector contributes to the highest number of industrial accidents. As the overall data showed an increasing trend, small and medium enterprises (SME) sector was found to contribute 80% of the occupational accidents in Malaysia [3][4][5]. Based on the latest systematic review study, 50% of the accident cases in the world come from SMEs with an eight time likelihood of fatality [3,4].…”

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“…As the overall data showed an increasing trend, small and medium enterprises (SME) sector was found to contribute 80% of the occupational accidents in Malaysia [3][4][5]. Based on the latest systematic review study, 50% of the accident cases in the world come from SMEs with an eight time likelihood of fatality [3,4]. Therefore, addressing this problem and implementing proactive measures to improve workplace safety is imperative to prevent accidents that certainly would imposed adverse impacts on the involved organisations.…”

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Factors of Leadership and Behaviour Towards Organisational Safety Performance: A Predictive Model for Small and Medium Manufacturing Industry

Zulkifly,

Zahir,

Ranjan

2023

IJSSE

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In Malaysia, small and medium enterprises (SMES) account for the majority of workplace accidents. SMEs encounter challenges in achieving effective safety performance due to limitations in organisational resource in managing occupational safety risks. Scholars have a unified agreement on the substantial factor that contributes towards accident and injury, which is human factor namely unsafe behaviour. On the other hand, scholars advocated that leadership is an effective approach in encouraging safety behaviour at work, especially among SME workers. Through the conceptualization of Transformational-Transactional Leadership Theory and models established by previous studies, this paper proposed to model of both leadership styles in effecting safety behaviour as well as safety performance. A total of 107 responses were collected from Safety and Health / Human Resource personnel who work in the SME (manufacturing) firms in the northern region of Malaysia. In this research, a questionnaire was constructed by adapting items from previous studies. SmartPLS 3.2.9 was used to analyse the data by applying partial least square-structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) analyses. The results of this research showed that safety behaviour had a substantial effect on safety performance. Furthermore, a significant mediating effect of safety behaviour could be found in the relationship between transformational and transactional leadership on safety performance. This research contributes to the existing body of knowledge by offering an alternative model that has been empirically validated which can be employed as a reference by academia and industry to explain the significant role of transformationaltransactional leadership towards overall safety performance for SME manufacturing industry.

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Worplace Safety Improvement in Sme Manufacturing: A Government Intervention

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Safety Leadership and Safety Knowledge-Attitude-Behaviour (KAB) in Malaysia’s Manufacturing SMEs: A Higher Order Two-Stage Approach of PLS-SEM

Safety Leadership and Safety Knowledge-Attitude-Behaviour (KAB) in Malaysia’s Manufacturing SMEs: A Higher Order Two-Stage Approach of PLS-SEM

The Investigation of Safety Behavior in Logistic Companies of Malaysia

Factors of Leadership and Behaviour Towards Organisational Safety Performance: A Predictive Model for Small and Medium Manufacturing Industry

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