The impact of organizational and individual factors on safety climate : a study in aviation industry
The main aim for this research is to Investigate the Impact of organizational and individual factors on safety climate in aviation industry with 240 respondents. Organizational factors Involved in the research were organization ownership, the existence or absence of safety manager and safety comm...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/19754/1/The%20impact%20of%20organizational.pdf |
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| Summary: | The main aim for this research is to Investigate the Impact of organizational and
individual factors on safety climate in aviation industry with 240 respondents.
Organizational factors Involved in the research were organization ownership, the
existence or absence of safety manager and safety committee. Whereas, the individual
factors that Involved In the research were age, gender, educational level, safety training
and accident experience. These factors were tested toward safety climate by adapting
the safety climate scale which consisted of five fundamental dimensions such as Chief
executive Officers Safety Commitment and Action, Managers Safety Commitment and
Action, Employee's Safety Commitment and Action, Perceived Risk and Emergency
Response. The relationships of these Independent and dependent variables were tested
using the Multiple Regression Analysis. Precisely, the level of significance was set to 0.05
for every statistical analysis. The result revealed that the Total Safety Climate (TSC) was
3.7632 which were considered as a positive safety climate. Moreover, the result also
revealed that there Is a positive relationship between private ownership and safety
climate. In addition, there is a positive relationship between the existence of safety
manager and safety climate. There is also a significant relationship between safety
committee and safety climate. But the relationship between safety committee and safety
climate is negatively related. Moreover, there is a positive relationship between accident
experience and safety climate. Finally, there is a positive relationship between safety
training and safety climate. However, the other factors such as gender, age, accident
experiences and educational level have not reached statistical significance towards
safety climate. |
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