A study on the relationship between Safety Climate and Safety Performance for Paper Industry-A case study of a company

• Main Authors: Chang, Yi-Hsin, 張倚昕
• Other Authors: Wang, Kuo-Hua
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45101636504955044770

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 勞工關係學系 === 101 === With the international trend of promoting occupational safety and health, numerous companies pay more attentions to workplace safety and health obviously. In Taiwan, the manufacturing processes of paper industry exist the high-risk factors, and the Frequency-Severity Indicator is the highest among the manufacturing industry. To establish a safe work environment needs to explore the context of safety climate and safety performance. Based on the safety climate and the safety performance scale and employing Statistics Package for Social Science (SPSS) for Windows version 18.0 for statistical analysis, this study aims to investigate the correlation of safety climate and safety performance on paper industry and analyze the influences on the above two factors. This study builds the draft scale with Likert five-point scale by exploring the relevant literature. Furthermore, the completed formal scale of safety climate and safety performance is examined by the experts and done with pre-test. The information is collected by means of questionnaire survey from 1136 employees of four factories of a paper company. Finally, 672 valid returns were obtained with a valid return rate of 59.15%. Either in the pre-test or the formal testing, the Cronbach’ s α coefficient of each dimension and each index reaches 0.60 at least, and the overall Cronbach’ s α coefficient reaches more than 0.90. And further, the absolute values of factor loadings are measured between 0.506 to 0.872, which means that the scale is with a certain reliability and validity. According to the analytic results of the data, this study shows that the significant impact factors of employee backgrounds on the safety climate and safety performance are “departments,” and “training frequencies of safety and health.” In addition, the influences only targeted at safety performance are “factory,” and “educations.” Overall speaking, those employees, who work in the department of manufacturing and receive the training with higher frequency, show that they have better results on safety climate and safety performance. On the other hand, the employees who possess of master degree at least have worse perceptive results than others. The correlation analysis indicates that dimensions among safety climate or indexes among safety performance have positively significant correlations. Also, the safety climate is positively correlated to the safety performance. From the path analysis, the dimensions among safety climate (safety commitment, safety perception, and safety participation) has reached the significant impact level on the leading indicators of safety performance. Moreover, safety commitment further influences the leading indicators of safety performance by means of the intermediate effect of safety perception and safety participation. On the other hand, the leading indicators of safety performance including safety management, safety environment and equipment, as well as the safety and health training, have a significant impact effect on lagging indicator (accident investigation and statistics).