Cover Image

Determinants of Factors Contributing To OSH Performance in Manufacturing Industries: A Pilot Study

The aim of this paper is to determine the factors that contributing to occupational safety and health (OSH) performance in the manufacturing industries in Malaysia through the result of reliability test and mean values of proposed constructs. The constructs proposed for this study are based on the &...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Suhaila Abdul Hamid ,, Norlia Goolamally,, Abdul Mutalib Leman,
Format: Book Section
Published: American Institute of Physics (IOP) 2018
Subjects:
T Technology (General)
Online Access:http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1243/
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id my.oum.1243
record_format eprints
spelling my.oum.12432020-10-05T06:37:02Z Determinants of Factors Contributing To OSH Performance in Manufacturing Industries: A Pilot Study Suhaila Abdul Hamid , Norlia Goolamally, Abdul Mutalib Leman, T Technology (General) The aim of this paper is to determine the factors that contributing to occupational safety and health (OSH) performance in the manufacturing industries in Malaysia through the result of reliability test and mean values of proposed constructs. The constructs proposed for this study are based on the "leading" indicators to measure OSH performance in the manufacturing industries instead of "lagging" indicators that to some extend create complacency among the industries which do not have any accidents or faced at low risk. The study adopted the non-proportional purposive sampling methods involving thirty Registered Safety and Health Officers of manufacturing industries. The 140 items questionnaire is developed based on a five-point Likert scale. The constructs are management commitment, management engagement, employees' OSH behavior, safety climate and OSH management system. The reliability test is performed to check on the internal consistencies among the construct in measuring the OSH performance for the manufacturing industries where by the mean values representing the agreement on the constructs. SPSS version 25.0 is used in the data analysis and the results are as follows: The reliability and mean values results of the constructs are as follows: management commitment (ƛ=0.955, x̅ =4.39), management engagement (ƛ=0.941, x̅ =3.15), employees' OSH behavior (ƛ=0.781, 4.7), safety climate (ƛ=0.967, x̅ =4.07) and OSH management system (ƛ= 0.983, x̅ =4.05). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] American Institute of Physics (IOP) 2018 Book Section PeerReviewed Suhaila Abdul Hamid , and Norlia Goolamally, and Abdul Mutalib Leman, (2018) Determinants of Factors Contributing To OSH Performance in Manufacturing Industries: A Pilot Study. In: AIP Conference Proceedings. American Institute of Physics (IOP), pp. 1-6. http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1243/
institution Open University Malaysia
building OUM Library
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Open University Malaysia
content_source OUM Knowledge Repository
url_provider http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/
topic T Technology (General)
spellingShingle T Technology (General)
Suhaila Abdul Hamid ,
Norlia Goolamally,
Abdul Mutalib Leman,
Determinants of Factors Contributing To OSH Performance in Manufacturing Industries: A Pilot Study
description The aim of this paper is to determine the factors that contributing to occupational safety and health (OSH) performance in the manufacturing industries in Malaysia through the result of reliability test and mean values of proposed constructs. The constructs proposed for this study are based on the "leading" indicators to measure OSH performance in the manufacturing industries instead of "lagging" indicators that to some extend create complacency among the industries which do not have any accidents or faced at low risk. The study adopted the non-proportional purposive sampling methods involving thirty Registered Safety and Health Officers of manufacturing industries. The 140 items questionnaire is developed based on a five-point Likert scale. The constructs are management commitment, management engagement, employees' OSH behavior, safety climate and OSH management system. The reliability test is performed to check on the internal consistencies among the construct in measuring the OSH performance for the manufacturing industries where by the mean values representing the agreement on the constructs. SPSS version 25.0 is used in the data analysis and the results are as follows: The reliability and mean values results of the constructs are as follows: management commitment (ƛ=0.955, x̅ =4.39), management engagement (ƛ=0.941, x̅ =3.15), employees' OSH behavior (ƛ=0.781, 4.7), safety climate (ƛ=0.967, x̅ =4.07) and OSH management system (ƛ= 0.983, x̅ =4.05). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
format Book Section
author Suhaila Abdul Hamid ,
Norlia Goolamally,
Abdul Mutalib Leman,
author_facet Suhaila Abdul Hamid ,
Norlia Goolamally,
Abdul Mutalib Leman,
author_sort Suhaila Abdul Hamid ,
title Determinants of Factors Contributing To OSH Performance in Manufacturing Industries: A Pilot Study
title_short Determinants of Factors Contributing To OSH Performance in Manufacturing Industries: A Pilot Study
title_full Determinants of Factors Contributing To OSH Performance in Manufacturing Industries: A Pilot Study
title_fullStr Determinants of Factors Contributing To OSH Performance in Manufacturing Industries: A Pilot Study
title_full_unstemmed Determinants of Factors Contributing To OSH Performance in Manufacturing Industries: A Pilot Study
title_sort determinants of factors contributing to osh performance in manufacturing industries: a pilot study
publisher American Institute of Physics (IOP)
publishDate 2018
url http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1243/
_version_ 1680323253435891712
score 13.211869

Similar Items