The Effects of Safety Leadership and Workers’ Personal Characteristics on Unsafe Behavior and Safety Performances－Example of Construction Workers in Southern Taiwan

• Main Authors: Fu Kuang Dai, 傅光黛
• Other Authors: 蒲永仁
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/w3p8fn

碩士 === 長榮大學 === 職業安全與衛生學系碩士班 === 98 === The purpose of this research tends to understand the current status for the first line managers’ safety leadership and the workers’ personality characteristics. In addition, this research also explores the impacts to workers’ unsafe behavior and safety performance exerted from safety leadership, personality characteristics and personal factors. This research adopted the structured questionnaire to proceed to information collection. And the information contents included demographic characteristics, safety leadership, external locus of control, unsafe behavior and safety performance. Judgment sampling was employed to select construction industries in the southern area of Taiwan. There were a total of 500 sheets of query survey disseminated with 426 of them characterized as the effective survey sheets and the effective return ratio reached 74.4%. Information acquired underwent analytical processing with statistical software of SPSS 12.0 for Windows. Findings of this research indicated that, in the area like the workers who perceived higher level of caring as opposed to the workers who perceived lower level of caring, the corresponding external locus of control for the former tended to be lower (p=0.002) and their respective work behavior was safer (p<0.0001) in addition to fewer occurrences in the near miss incidents (p<0.05). Again, in the category of the workers who perceived high level of controlling as opposed to the workers who perceived low level of controlling, the corresponding external locus of control of the former tended to be lower (p<0.0001) and the work behavior was safer (p<0.001) in addition to fewer occurrences in both the near miss and the disabling injury categories (p<0.05). In the aspect of combining both factors like caring and controlling, the workers who perceived low caring and low controlling have higher corresponding external locus of control than that for the workers who perceived high controlling and high caring or the workers (p<0.0001) who perceived low caring and high controlling. For those workers who perceived high caring and high controlling, their corresponding unsafe behavior was obviously lower than those who perceived low controlling or those who (p<0.0001) perceived low caring and low controlling. Moreover, the workers who perceived high caring and high controlling, their corresponding performance indices for disabling injuries were lower than those of the workers (p=0.012) who perceived low caring and low controlling. The corresponding unsafe behavior of the workers with high level of external locus of control was conspicuously higher than those (p<0.0001) with low level of external locus of control. Findings of this research revealed the fact that, the worker’s perception of the first line management’s caring and controlling possessed certain correlations to the safety performance indices for worker’s individual inclination in the external locus of control, workers’ unsafe behavior, near miss incidents and disabling injuries. Therefore, to prevent occupational hazards from happening, it should start with the enhancement and strengthening in the safety leadership training for the first line managers. With performances like being good at using the caring and controlling elements within leadership strategies, paying attention to inclination of external locus of control for each individual worker, timely intervening into the high-risk groups, the first line managers can effectively elevate and enhance the workers’ safety behavior as well as lower the rate of occurrence with accidents.