Relationship Between Behavioural Aspect, Safety Compliance And Its Effect On Safety Culture In The Manufacturing Industry In Peninsular Malaysia

Abstract

Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) is an important aspect in reducing risk and accidents in the workplace. The high number of accidents in manufacturing industry leads to the question of “whether, in the quest of optimizing productivity, employers pay enough concern to the safety and health of the employees?” While many factors contributed to workplace accidents, safety-related behaviors act as the important key in promoting safety culture. The purpose of the study is to measure whether there is a significant relationship between the behavioral aspects and the safety culture in the manufacturing industry in Peninsular Malaysia. The measurement tools were adopted from the published work of previous esearchers except for safety compliance which was tested as the intermediary variables for the first time in this study. The target respondents were the employees working in manufacturing industry in Peninsular Malaysia and quantitative method was applied.