Knowledge, attitude, awareness and communication towards safety compliance among faculty laboratory staff in a public university

Occupational injuries and diseases due to hazards exposure can occur if the aspect of safety management is neglected in the laboratory. This study investigated the relationship between Knowledge, Attitude, Awareness, Communication towards Safety Compliance among faculty laboratory staff in a public...

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Main Author: Nur Latifah, Ahmad Zaidi
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Published: 2022
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spelling my-uum-etd.105012023-04-16T02:19:10Z Knowledge, attitude, awareness and communication towards safety compliance among faculty laboratory staff in a public university 2022 Nur Latifah, Ahmad Zaidi Harith, Siti Hawa Islamic Business School School of Business Management HF5548.7-5548.85 Industrial Psychology Occupational injuries and diseases due to hazards exposure can occur if the aspect of safety management is neglected in the laboratory. This study investigated the relationship between Knowledge, Attitude, Awareness, Communication towards Safety Compliance among faculty laboratory staff in a public university. A total of one hundred and three laboratory staffs were selected from Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya. A validated questionnaire was distributed among the respondents. This study employs quantitative design field study with cross-sectional time frame. The analysis of data collection was performed by statistical tool Statistical Program for Social Science (SPSS) version 27. Results shows for Pearson correlation analysis, attitude, awareness and communication have a significant relation to compliance (p=0.001; p=0.000; p=0.001). However, knowledge (p=0.149) did not have significant to compliance. Based on the results in Multiple Regression analysis, it shows that there is significant association on the awareness (β = 0.292; t=2.445; sig=0.016) and communication (β = 0.246; t=2.387; sig=0.019) to compliance. Whereas for knowledge (β = -0.185; t=-1.376; sig=0.172) and attitude (β = 0. 148; t=0.890; sig=0.376) showed no significant association to compliance. In conclusion, awareness and communications had substantial impacts on the compliance towards safety rules and procedures. 2022 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/10501/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/10501/1/grant%20the%20permission_s827819.pdf text eng staffonly https://etd.uum.edu.my/10501/2/s827819_01.pdf text eng public other masters Universiti Utara Malaysia
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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advisor Harith, Siti Hawa
topic HF5548.7-5548.85 Industrial Psychology
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Nur Latifah, Ahmad Zaidi
Knowledge, attitude, awareness and communication towards safety compliance among faculty laboratory staff in a public university
description Occupational injuries and diseases due to hazards exposure can occur if the aspect of safety management is neglected in the laboratory. This study investigated the relationship between Knowledge, Attitude, Awareness, Communication towards Safety Compliance among faculty laboratory staff in a public university. A total of one hundred and three laboratory staffs were selected from Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya. A validated questionnaire was distributed among the respondents. This study employs quantitative design field study with cross-sectional time frame. The analysis of data collection was performed by statistical tool Statistical Program for Social Science (SPSS) version 27. Results shows for Pearson correlation analysis, attitude, awareness and communication have a significant relation to compliance (p=0.001; p=0.000; p=0.001). However, knowledge (p=0.149) did not have significant to compliance. Based on the results in Multiple Regression analysis, it shows that there is significant association on the awareness (β = 0.292; t=2.445; sig=0.016) and communication (β = 0.246; t=2.387; sig=0.019) to compliance. Whereas for knowledge (β = -0.185; t=-1.376; sig=0.172) and attitude (β = 0. 148; t=0.890; sig=0.376) showed no significant association to compliance. In conclusion, awareness and communications had substantial impacts on the compliance towards safety rules and procedures.
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title Knowledge, attitude, awareness and communication towards safety compliance among faculty laboratory staff in a public university
title_short Knowledge, attitude, awareness and communication towards safety compliance among faculty laboratory staff in a public university
title_full Knowledge, attitude, awareness and communication towards safety compliance among faculty laboratory staff in a public university
title_fullStr Knowledge, attitude, awareness and communication towards safety compliance among faculty laboratory staff in a public university
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge, attitude, awareness and communication towards safety compliance among faculty laboratory staff in a public university
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url https://etd.uum.edu.my/10501/1/grant%20the%20permission_s827819.pdf
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