The Application of Workplace Safety Scale Among Employees of a Utility Company

The Application of Workplace Safety Scale Among Employees of a Utility Company

This study employs Hayes's Work Safety Scale (WSS) to determine the compliance with safety behaviour among the personnel of a water supply company. Water supply is part of the utility sector servicing the country and it is one of the most important services rendered, for in an event of water s...

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Main Author: Adli, Mohd Shariff
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
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Published: 2012
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HD4801-8943 Labor
Work
Working Class
Online Access:https://etd.uum.edu.my/3056/1/Adli_Mohd_Shariff.pdf
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Working Class
Adli, Mohd Shariff
The Application of Workplace Safety Scale Among Employees of a Utility Company
description This study employs Hayes's Work Safety Scale (WSS) to determine the compliance with safety behaviour among the personnel of a water supply company. Water supply is part of the utility sector servicing the country and it is one of the most important services rendered, for in an event of water supply disruption, public uproar and outcry is imminent. The service industry is very dependable to the talents employed due to the technological advancement in the infrastructure is very much tied and limited to the availability of funding and willingness to invest. To ensure that the water supply service is unintempted, the workforce plying the trade should be ensured their safety is safeguarded against unwanted accident to ensure continuous service at an optimum level. It was found that the three (3) factors from the five facets of the WSS is significant to this sample settings and positively related to the compliance with safety behaviour (CSB), and they are the job safety, management safety and safety program.
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title_short The Application of Workplace Safety Scale Among Employees of a Utility Company
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title_fullStr The Application of Workplace Safety Scale Among Employees of a Utility Company
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spelling my-uum-etd.30562022-04-10T05:58:04Z The Application of Workplace Safety Scale Among Employees of a Utility Company 2012 Adli, Mohd Shariff Subramaniam, Chandrakantan Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business HD4801-8943 Labor. Work. Working Class This study employs Hayes's Work Safety Scale (WSS) to determine the compliance with safety behaviour among the personnel of a water supply company. Water supply is part of the utility sector servicing the country and it is one of the most important services rendered, for in an event of water supply disruption, public uproar and outcry is imminent. The service industry is very dependable to the talents employed due to the technological advancement in the infrastructure is very much tied and limited to the availability of funding and willingness to invest. To ensure that the water supply service is unintempted, the workforce plying the trade should be ensured their safety is safeguarded against unwanted accident to ensure continuous service at an optimum level. It was found that the three (3) factors from the five facets of the WSS is significant to this sample settings and positively related to the compliance with safety behaviour (CSB), and they are the job safety, management safety and safety program. 2012 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/3056/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/3056/1/Adli_Mohd_Shariff.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/3056/2/Adli_Mohd_Shariff.pdf text eng public masters masters Universiti Utara Malaysia Barling, J., Loughlin, C., & Kelloway, E. K. (2002). Development and test of a model linking safety-specific transformational leadership and occupational safety. Journal of Applied Psychology, 15, 1173-1 182. Cheyne, A., Cox, S., Oliver, A., & Tomas, J. (1998). 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