Citation

Kasim H, Hassan CRC, Hamid MD, Emami SD, Danaee M. Safety Sci. 2019; 113: 180-191.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ssci.2018.11.025

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Safety culture practices tend to strongly influence workers to control possible risk, make decision, and have a true perception on the risk despite the aim of encouraging safe work environment and reducing the numbers of human errors. The present study assessed the perceptions of the workers on nine safety culture practices as well as the individual risk estimate on the chemical and radiation hazard. In this study, a questionnaire survey was conducted among the workers of nuclear and radiation facilities in Malaysia. In this study, structural equation modelling (SEM) was utilised to analyse the relationship between the variables. The reliability and validity of the measured item was found to be acceptable. Meanwhile, the significant direct path of safety climate factors managed to be shown together with risk control measures, decision making attitude, and individual risk estimate. However, risk control measure and decision-making attitude did not mediate the relationship between safety climate factors and the risk estimate. On the other hand, priority to safety was identified as the most important factor that affects risk estimate, risk control measure, and decision-making attitude. This study also emphasized the requirement of communicative information which can be performed through information sharing, dissemination, and questioning mechanism. Overall, these findings manage to facilitate radiation stakeholders in developing the framework of safety culture practices as well as strengthening the safety management system.

Language: en

Keywords

Managing risk; Risk assessment; Safety climate; Safety culture practices; Safety management system