Investigating the Relationship between Organizational Climate and Safety Climate at a Manufacturing Industry
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Khalil Taherzadeh Chenani
,
Reza Jafari Nodoushan
,
Farzan Madadizadeh
,
Vida Sadat Anoosheh
,
Sajjad Rostamzadeh
,
Fahima Boghri
Abstract
Organizational and safety climates are respectively general and specific forms of climates within organizations, which can affect individuals' performance. Organizational climate (OC) refers to the people’s behavioral patterns, attitudes and feelings within the organization. Safety climate (SC) refers to employees' perception of the organizational approach toward safety policies. This study was aimed to investigate the association between OC and SC in one tile industry. This cross-sectional and analytical study conducted using two standard questionnaires, sussman & deep and NOSACQ-50 for the assessment of OC and SC, respectively. The Kolmogorov – Smirnov test was used to evaluate the normality of the quantitative data. Spearman, Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests were also used for statistical analysis of the gathered data. Our study represents the existence of significant and positive association between the dimensions of OC and SC. A significant association was found between the OC, working departments and type of employment. In addition, a significant association was found between SC and working departments, as well. Consideration of the OC, as a factor affecting SC, seems to be vital to be taken into account in researches. OC may affect people's attitudes toward organizational safety policies, which may therefore be defined as a factor affecting safety performance of organizations.
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3. Hajaghazadeh M, Farrokhi F, Marvimilan H, Orujlu S. Survey of safety climate from the viewpoints of nurses working in one of the hospitals in Urmia city, Iran, in 2014. Journal of Health and Safety at Work. 2016; Vol. 6(2), pp. 79-89. (in Persian)
4. Clarke S. The relationship between safety climate and safety performance: a meta-analytic review. Journal of occupational health psychology. 2006;11(4):315.
5. Hayes BE, Perander J, Smecko T, Trask J. Measuring perceptions of workplace safety: Development and validation of the work safety scale. Journal of Safety research. 1998; Vol. 29(3), pp. 145-61.
6. Griffin MA, Neal A. Perceptions of safety at work: a framework for linking safety climate to safety performance, knowledge, and motivation. Journal of occupational health psychology. 2000; Vol. 5(3), pp. 347-358.
7. Bosak J, Coetsee WJ, Cullinane S-J. Safety climate dimensions as predictors for risk behavior. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 2013; Vol. 55, pp. 256-264.
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10. Neal A, Griffin MA, Hart PM. The impact of organizational climate on safety climate and individual behavior. Safety science. 2000; Vol. 34(1-3), pp. 99-109.
11. James LA, James LR. Integrating work environment perceptions: Explorations into the measurement of meaning. Journal of applied psychology. 1989; Vol. 74(5), pp. 739-751.
12. Hashim H, Ishak NA, Hilmi ZAG. Influence of organizational climate on Disabled Job Embeddedness. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences. 2015; Vol. 202, pp. 242-251.
13. Vosoughi S, Chalak MH, Rostamzadeh S, Taheri F, Farshad AA, Motallebi Ghayen M. A cause and effect decision making model of factors influencing falling from height accidents in construction projects using Fuzzy-DEMATEL technique. Iran Occupational Health. 2019; Vol. 16(2), pp. 79-93. (in Persian)
14. Karantzas GC, McCabe MP, Mellor D, Von Treuer K, Davison TE, O’Connor D, et al. Organizational climate and self-efficacy as predictors of staff strain in caring for dementia residents: A mediation model. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics. 2016; Vol. 66, pp. 89-94.
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16. Shirali GA, Khademian F. Analysis of workplace safety climate using Nordic questionnaire: a case study in a metal industry. Iran occupational health. 2016; Vol. 13(5), pp. 25-38. (in Persian)
17. Seyyedmoharrami I, Dehaghi BF, Abbaspour S, Zandi A, Tatari M, Teimori G, et al. The relationship between organizational climate, organizational commitment and job burnout: Case study among employees of the university of medical sciences. The Open Public Health Journal. 2019; Vol. 12(1), pp. 94-100.
18. Kines P, Lappalainen J, Mikkelsen KL, Olsen E, Pousette A, Tharaldsen J, et al. Nordic Safety Climate Questionnaire (NOSACQ-50): A new tool for diagnosing occupational safety climate. international Journal of industrial Ergonomics. 2011; Vol. 41(6), pp. 634-46.
19. Yousefi Y. Validity and Reliability of the Persian (Farsi) Version of Nordic Safety Climate Questionnaire (NOASACQ-50). 2013; Vol. 9(8), pp. 812-818. (in Persian)
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21. Reason J. Human error: Cambridge university press; 1990.
22. Glendon AI, Litherland DK. Safety climate factors, group differences and safety behaviour in road construction. Safety science. 2001; Vol. 39(3), pp. 157-88.
23. Alruqi WM, Hallowell MR, Techera U. Safety climate dimensions and their relationship to construction safety performance: A meta-analytic review. Safety science. 2018; Vol. 109, pp. 165-73.
24. Oah S, Na R, Moon K. The influence of safety climate, safety leadership, workload, and accident experiences on risk perception: A study of Korean manufacturing workers. Safety and health at work. 2018; Vol. 9(4), pp. 427-433.
25. Zhou F, Jiang C. Leader-member exchange and employees’ safety behavior: The moderating effect of safety climate. Procedia Manufacturing. 2015; Vol. 3, pp. 5014-5021.
26. Kim KW, Park SJ, Lim HS, Cho HH. Safety climate and occupational stress according to occupational accidents experience and employment type in shipbuilding industry of korea. Safety and health at work. 2017; Vol. 8(3), pp. 290-295.
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Taherzadeh Chenani K, Jafari Nodoushan R, Madadizadeh F, Anoosheh VS, Rostamzadeh S, Boghri F. Investigating the Relationship between Organizational Climate and Safety Climate at a Manufacturing Industry. Int J Occup Hyg. 2020;12(4):365-375.
