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.2018.42.2939

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“…Therefore, the present research proposes to study the effect of safety management practices on safety performance. This is because, there is a serious need for safety performance to improve occupational safety within SMEs in Malaysia Hassan et al, 2019;Kines et al, 2013;Zulkifly et al, 2018).…”

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“…The SMEs sector has served as the backbone of Malaysia's industrial development in recent years (Ismail et al, 2021;Tahir et al, 2018). But SMEs appear as a sector contributing to the largest workplace accident rate (Hassan et al, 2019;Khoo et al, 2011a;Surienty, 2019;Zulkifly et al, 2018) up to 60%-70% (Aziz et al, 2015;Surienty et al, 2011). The unique characteristic in contrast to the large firms leads to unsatisfactory safety performance.…”

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“…The unique characteristic in contrast to the large firms leads to unsatisfactory safety performance. A huge multinational company, for example, owns several advantages, especially in terms of finance (Muhmad, 2020), enabling the formation of a specific department or unit that is focussing on managing occupational safety and health that consists of competent safety personnel (Hassan et al, 2019;Surienty et al, 2011;Zulkifly et al, 2018). Whereas, there are SMEs wherein the organizational structure is usually more straightforward because the owner-manager performs all the crucial roles in ensuring the organizational performance, including safety performance (Legg et al, 2015;Zulkifly et al, 2017).…”

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The Impact of Superior Roles in Safety Management on Safety Performance in SME Manufacturing in Malaysia

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Small and medium entrepreneurship (SMEs) is the backbone of countries’ development. Over the years, there have been a large percentage of workplace injuries by SMEs in Malaysia, including financial and other SMEs’ constraints, which inform of inexpensive approach, thus requiring effective approaches to boost their safety performance. SME is unique in terms of characteristics, such as flat organizational structure. Thus, the owner-managers and the supervisors’ safety management, respectively, are proposed to impact the safety performance. This signals the need to examine how owner-managers and supervisors’ safety management practices improve occupational safety performance in SME manufacturing companies. Grounded on the Theories of Accident Causation, the present study applied a research model examining the relationship between owner-manager safety management practices (safety concern, safety policy and safety motivation) and safety management of supervisors, and the overall safety performance in Malaysia’s SME manufacturing. The questionnaires were distributed to the production workers in SME manufacturing firms in Selangor, Malaysia. A total of 165 production workers participated in the study. The data collected were analysed using partial least squares structural equation modelling. Based on the analysis, the study revealed that safety concern, safety policy and safety motivation, each, have a meaningful relationship with safety performance, while the supervisor’s safety management did not significantly affect safety performance. Our results extend previous research by highlighting the importance of owner-manager safety management practices in driving safety performance and indicating how each dimension of safety management practices either enhances or inhibits safety performance. The present study is the first empirical research investigating the relationship between manager and supervisor’s safety management and safety performance in the SME manufacturing setting.

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The Impact of Superior Roles in Safety Management on Safety Performance in SME Manufacturing in Malaysia

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“…In considering the limitations and constraints, especially in terms of financial, knowledge, and workforces (Hassan et al, 2019;Subramaniam et al, 2016;Zulkifly et al, 2017Zulkifly et al, , 2018, safety leadership by the management, specifically the owner-managers as well as supervisors should appear as the best approach to reduce accidents through fostering workers' safety behavior. Moreover, Malaysian SMEs have supervisors who support their subordinates in safety matters to ensure effective occupational safety and health (OSH) management (Khoo et al, 2011).…”

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Validation of a Research Instrument for Safety Leadership and Safety Knowledge-Attitude-Behaviour (KAB) for Malaysia Manufacturing Set-Up

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This article provide an empirical evidence on the validity of a questionnaire designed to assess safety leadership, as well as safety knowledge-attitude-behaviour (Safety KAB) within Malaysia’s manufacturers which fall under small and medium (S & M) entrepreneurship. The questionnaire’s items were adapted from earlier research conducted in other study contexts. First, modified fuzzy delphi method (FDM) was applied for the research to obtain expert’s consensus regarding the content validity of all items. With some modifications to suit Malaysia’s SME manufacturing setting, the 5 point Likert-scale questionnaire consisting 42 items for measuring safety leadership and safety KAB were finalised. Subsequently, it was distributed to 100 production operators from the manufacturing S& M enterrpises in the Northern Corridor Economic Region (NCER) of Malaysia for pilot testing, 95 respondents had answered. They returned the questionnaires and 89 were best to be chosen for further procedures.The determined Cronbach’s alpha values were more than 0.90 for all items representing those variables, indicating that the questionnaire possessed high reliability and internal consistency. Subsequently, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) employing principal component analysis (PCA) extraction and varimax rotation was performed to determine the construct validity. According to the PCA results, each item was retained as all the factor loadings were above the decided cut-off value, which is 0.65. Henceforth, the questionnaire is considered valid and reliabile to be used by future researchers.

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“…However, it also appear with high statistics of workplace accident in Malaysia (Khoo et al, 2011a;Surienty, 2019). It was announced that 60-90% of the total accident cases in Malaysia comes from the SME (Aziz et al, 2015;Nor Azma et al, 2016;Zulkifly et al, 2018). The low level of safety performance has been found as the cause of accidents (Shahlan et al, 2015;Surienty, 2012).…”

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THE EFFECT OF OWNER-MANAGER’S SAFETY LEADERSHIP AND SUPERVISOR’S SAFETY ROLE ON SAFETY PERFORMANCE IN MALAYSIA’S MANUFACTURING SMEs

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Safety leadership has been advocated as the most appropriate approach towards injury prevention. Besides, supervisor safety role is also proposed to be crucial towards good safety performance in SMEs. Henceforth, this study aisled to determine the direct impact of safety leadership (safety concern, safety policy, and safety motivation) played by the owner-managers on safety performance within the SME manufacturers in Selangor, Malaysia. Furthermore, this study also evaluated the mediating effect of supervisor safety roles towards safety leadership and safety performance' relationship. The data was collected among 165 SME manufacturing workers from 37 factories and Partial Least Square – Structured Equation Model (PSL-SEM) was performed for data analyses. The results indicated that safety leadership in terms of safety concern, safety policy, and safety motivation has significant impact on safety performance. However, supervisor safety role does not mediate the relationship between safety leadership and safety performance. These results proved importance of direct safety management by the owner-managers and supervisors towards safety performance.Safety leadership approach delivered by the owner-managers could be the best way to improve safety performance despite all the limitation within SMEs.

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Worplace Safety Improvement in Sme Manufacturing: A Government Intervention

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The Impact of Superior Roles in Safety Management on Safety Performance in SME Manufacturing in Malaysia

The Impact of Superior Roles in Safety Management on Safety Performance in SME Manufacturing in Malaysia

Validation of a Research Instrument for Safety Leadership and Safety Knowledge-Attitude-Behaviour (KAB) for Malaysia Manufacturing Set-Up

THE EFFECT OF OWNER-MANAGER’S SAFETY LEADERSHIP AND SUPERVISOR’S SAFETY ROLE ON SAFETY PERFORMANCE IN MALAYSIA’S MANUFACTURING SMEs

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