| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 工業管理系 === 102 === Safety is a major issue in many countries including Taiwan, in which the accident rate is still high. Therefore, Taiwanese government tries to improve the safety culture of its industries by developing safety culture questionnaire. Unfortunately, safety culture is complex and hard to be assessed using questionnaire. Thus, this research aims are evaluating the government developed questionnaire, assessing safety climate level in Taiwan metal industries as high risk industry and identifying the influence of worker background towards safety climate in order to create better strategy of safety culture improvement. The result shows that more consideration should be given to the questionnaire name regarding to the use of safety climate questionnaire instead of safety culture questionnaire. This is due to the complexity of the safety culture concept that is hard to be captured using questionnaire. Moreover, based on questionnaire evaluation result, there are some limitations in the questionnaire development process. This is indicated as the cause of lack of validity found further in the questionnaire. Due to the validity issue, there are 3 factors that are proven to be valid and reliable among all 10 initial factors used in the questionnaire. The valid and reliable proven factors are safety perception, safety communication, and safety management system which will be used for further analysis. Based on the safety climate measurement result, those 3 valid and reliable factors shows the safety climate level ranges from 3.9-4.2 which considered as good safety climate. However, there is still room for improvement regarding to safety communication due to the lowest level comparing with the remaining two safety climate factors. Moreover, some workers backgrounds are proven to have strong influence towards safety climate. This can be used to create the effective strategies to improve safety culture in Taiwan metal industries. Further research is to reconstruct the model as well as re-develop the questionnaire based on safety climate questionnaire development process. Moreover, the possibilities of interaction among workers backgrounds as independent variables needs to be considered by analyzing its influence toward safety climate simultaneously if the interaction among independent variables is found.
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