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A study of safety culture in a manufacturing industry

Safety culture is about the perception shared by the organization's members towards safety and the effort to maintain the safety level in the organization. Apparently, accident at workplace is not controllable but preventable. To prevent accident happen in the organization, the factors of accid...

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Main Author: Teoh En, Hwei
Format: Final Year Project Report
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2015
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H Social Sciences (General)
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spelling my.unimas.ir.122692024-04-23T04:57:01Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12269/ A study of safety culture in a manufacturing industry Teoh En, Hwei H Social Sciences (General) Safety culture is about the perception shared by the organization's members towards safety and the effort to maintain the safety level in the organization. Apparently, accident at workplace is not controllable but preventable. To prevent accident happen in the organization, the factors of accident have to be identified. Based on past studies, researchers stated that the major contributor to workplace accident is poor safety culture. Thus, the main objective of this research was to study the safety culture in a manufacturing industry. The independent variables are management commitment, work environment, procedure at work, communication at workplace and accident and near miss reporting practices. The dependent variable is safety culture. The research methos used in this research was quantitative survey method. 10 sets of questionnaires were used to run the pilot test to test the reliability of the questionnaire. The collected data were analysed by using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 21.0. The data were summarised using descriptive and inferential statistics. All the six null hypotheses were tested with Pearson Correlation and Multiple Regression Analysis. Based on the results,it indicated that management commitment and work environment, procedure at work, workplace communication, and accident and near miss reporting practices have significant relationship towards safety cultures. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2015 Final Year Project Report NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12269/6/Teoh%20En%20Hwei%20ft.pdf Teoh En, Hwei (2015) A study of safety culture in a manufacturing industry. [Final Year Project Report] (Unpublished)
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A study of safety culture in a manufacturing industry
description Safety culture is about the perception shared by the organization's members towards safety and the effort to maintain the safety level in the organization. Apparently, accident at workplace is not controllable but preventable. To prevent accident happen in the organization, the factors of accident have to be identified. Based on past studies, researchers stated that the major contributor to workplace accident is poor safety culture. Thus, the main objective of this research was to study the safety culture in a manufacturing industry. The independent variables are management commitment, work environment, procedure at work, communication at workplace and accident and near miss reporting practices. The dependent variable is safety culture. The research methos used in this research was quantitative survey method. 10 sets of questionnaires were used to run the pilot test to test the reliability of the questionnaire. The collected data were analysed by using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 21.0. The data were summarised using descriptive and inferential statistics. All the six null hypotheses were tested with Pearson Correlation and Multiple Regression Analysis. Based on the results,it indicated that management commitment and work environment, procedure at work, workplace communication, and accident and near miss reporting practices have significant relationship towards safety cultures.
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