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Title:	Evaluation of safety climate and its relation to safety knowledge, attitude and employees safety participation in two petroleum refineries in Malaysia
Authors:	Ali Mohammad Saedi (P72851)
Supervisor:	Amran Ab. Majid, Prof. Dr.
Keywords:	Petroleum -- Refining -- Malaysia Industrial safety -- Malaysia Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia -- Dissertations Dissertations, Academic -- Malaysia
Issue Date:	1-May-2018
Description:	Safety culture has been defined as the product of interactions between people (psychological factors), jobs (behavioural factors), and the organisation (situational factors). Safety climate is a term used to describe shared employee perceptions of how safety management is being operationalised in the workplace, at a particular moment in time and it is considered to be a sub-component of the safety culture construct as a "snapshot in time" of the overall safety culture of an organisation, therefore evaluating of safety climate is essential for reducing risk and accident. Numerous accidents have been reported in Malaysian industrial organisations by the Social Security Organisation (SOCSO) and Department of Occupational Safety and Health Malaysia (DOSH), which identified organisational failures as the main culprit of accident. These failures may have been due, in part, to the safety culture of the organisation but more specifically the safety climate that existed at the time just prior to an accident. This research investigated employees' perceptions toward safety climate by administrating a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire in two petroleum refinery plants, subsequently by conducting focus group discussions with managers or plant safety officers and finally, proposed a valid frame work for assessing employees' safety participations for having a better safety culture. For this purpose, 111 respondents from two petroleum refinery plants in the west coast of peninsular Malaysia participated in the survey; besides 4 managers and safety officers for focus group discussion. The statistical package for social scientists (SPSS) (version 22) and smart Partial Least Squares (PLS) (version 2) were used to analyse the data. Based on average mean score, the results showed that level of safety climate (M=4.61), safety knowledge (M=4.71), safety attitude (M=4.80), and employee's safety participation (M=4.73) were high as they were more than 3 compared with the possible maximum score of 5. Correlation analyses indicated significant and good relationships between safety climate and safety knowledge (r = 0.742), attitude (r = 0.629) and participation (r = 0.672). It was also found that employees' age, gender, education level, organisational position, working experience, and ethnicity did not contribute to significant differences in the safety variables. The focus group discussion results confirmed the quantitative findings, showing that the safety of their plants came from their systematic safety programs of their organisations. Finally, the results of path analysis revealed that there was a direct and strong impact of safety climate on employees' knowledge, attitude and participation. They also indicated that safety knowledge and attitude significantly mediate and impact the relationship between safety climate and employees' safety participations. As conclusion, the findings reveal the significance of employee's safety performance and their perceptions toward plant safety climate which could improve plant safety culture.,'Certification of Master's/ Doctoral Thesis' is not available
Pages:	182
Call Number:	T55.S127 2017 tesis
Publisher:	UKM, Bangi
Appears in Collections:	Faculty of Science and Technology / Fakulti Sains dan Teknologi

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