The Interpersonal Relationships Dealt by Safety Professionals in Science Industrial Parks

• Main Authors: Chai-Yu Lin, 林采愉
• Other Authors: Tsung-Chih Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33966861669664780857

碩士 === 弘光科技大學 === 職業安全與防災研究所 === 99 === Abstract The quality of interpersonal relationship can help an organization or an individual to reach the goal. In order to implement the safety and health managerial activities smoothly, the labor safety and health staff (hereafter referred to as safety professionals) have to develop very good relationships. This study aims to understand who or what departments are the ones the safety professionals contact with most frequently in the complicated internal and external relationships. 200 safety professionals from 3 science industrial parks in Taiwan and 200 teachers teaching in the University Department of Safety, Heath and Environmental (hereafter referred to as safety educators) were chosen to participate the questionnaire survey by mail. 128 safety professionals and 120 safety educators send the survey back, the total response rate was 62%. After the exploratory factor analysis of the 24 items of Interpersonal Relations Scale (IRS), 2 factors (internal relationship and external relationship) are produced, the eigenvalue of each was more than 1. These 2 factors explained 63.18% of the total variation. The result shows, the people whom the safety professionals contact with ranked according to contact frequency from high to low were employees, line managers, contractors or suppliers, technical or maintenance departments, administrative departments, industrial engineers or process engineers, human resource departments, senior managers, quality control or quality assurance departments, and the committee of labor safety and health, respectively.The one-way multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) showed that the important impact foctors on interpersonal relationship included occupational groups, education level, company size and work status. In addition, the rankings of the contact frequency of the safety professionals were different between the safety professionals and the safety educators. Therefore, in view of the safety practices, the safety educators have to notice these differences to facilitate the development of safety curriculum. Keywords: Safety professionals, interpersonal relationship, exploratory factor analysis, one-way MANOVA