Citation

Sugumaran B, Abdullah MS, Manaf AHA. Saudi J. Humanit. Soc. Sci. 2017; 2(1): 66-73.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Scholars Middle East Publishers)

DOI

10.21276/sjhss.2017.2.1.11

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study proposed to discover the important of Compliance with Safety Behaviour (CSB) in the context of Manufacturing Industry in Perak. The outcomes from this study may be helpful for industrial practitioners to understand all the influencing factors to CSB. The present study also aims to investigate if there is any significant relationship between safety attitude, management support, and safety rules and procedures towards compliance safety behaviour in Perak Manufacturing Industry. This safety analysis will provide guidance for management on how to develop specific safety programs. In addition, some of the outcomes stated in the study could be appropriate to other countries which facing similar state of affairs. The CSB, Safety Attitude, Management Support, and Safety Rules and Procedures instrument were used in this study. This study examines the direct relationship between safety attitude, management support and safety rules and procedures on compliance safety behaviour. Quantitative approaches with descriptive analysis method and multi-stage sampling method have been used in this study. Where, cluster method was conducted follows with stratified and simple random sampling method. A total of 770 questionnaires distributed to the manufacturing workers in Perak who had agreed to participate in this study. However, out of it only 480 questionnaires were returned and about 383 questionnaires were used for further analysis.

RESULTS showed that safety attitude, management support and safety rules and procedures have positive significant relationship between compliance safety behaviour.


Keywords: Safety attitude; Management support; Safety rules and procedures; Compliance safety behaviour (CSB); Job demand; Job control; Job demand-control-support model

Language: en