Workplace Safety & Compliance Products

1996 ◽  
Vol 26 (20) ◽  
pp. 159
Keyword(s):  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Safety Compliance

scholarly journals Exploring Suppliers’ Approaches toward Workplace Safety Compliance in the Global Garment Sector: From Bangladesh Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Md Sultan Mahmood ◽  
Nilima Haque Ruma ◽  
Toufiq Ahmed ◽  
Yukari Nagai
Keyword(s):  
Case Study Research ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Labor Laws ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Safety Compliance ◽  
Health Rights

The readymade garment (RMG) sector is one of the main drivers of the Bangladesh economy with over 4 million employed. In the 2013 Rana Plaza accident aftermath, the implementation of workplace safety compliance (WSC) became imperative. The paper investigated the WSC initiatives implemented by the RMG sector to overcome safety challenges and their effectiveness for a safe and healthy workplace. We employed a multi-case study research strategy over three Bangladeshi garment manufacturers to resolve these queries. The result revealed that the manufacturers joined in the safety governance programs to protect workers’ health safety rights immediately after the accidents. They participated in inspections and remediations programs over structural, electrical, and fire protection as a priority. Moreover, several other human rights conventions, national labor laws and, buyer code of conduct were also adopted as regulatory and voluntary initiatives to settle workers’ health rights and social needs. The WSC enforcement empowered workers to bargain their rights toward a safe workplace and made them responsible for responding during an emergency. Finally, the paper argues that the WSC in the RMG sector nowadays covers a wide range of initiatives in three broad areas: physical environment safety, workers’ health issues, and workers’ rights.

Authentic leadership, person-organization fit and collectivistic orientation: a moderated-mediated model of workplace safety

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuzhen Liu ◽  
Fulei Chu ◽  
Ming Guo ◽  
Yuanyuan Liu
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Authentic Leadership ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Safety Behaviors ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Safety Compliance ◽  
Person Organization Fit ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeWorkplace safety has been a persistent issue for safety-critical organizations. Based on self-verification theory, this study investigates how authentic leadership affects safety behaviors in a collectivistic context.Design/methodology/approachThis research collected 259 matching questionnaires for high-speed railway (HSR) drivers and their supervisors in China. Specifically, HSR drivers were invited to fill in their general perceived authentic leadership, person-organization fit and collectivistic orientation. In addition, their direct supervisors were invited to assess their safety behaviors.FindingsAuthentic leadership exhibits a significant positive impact on safety compliance and safety participation, implying that authentic leadership positively impacts safety behavior. The person-organization fit partially mediated the relationship between authentic leadership and safety behavior (safety compliance and participation). Furthermore, collectivistic orientation moderates the relationship between authentic leadership and person-organization fit.Originality/valueThe findings of this study provide important insights into authentic leadership and person-organization fit for developing effective strategies to improve workplace safety.

Comparative analysis of opinions of staff of gynecological and surgical departments on professional safety of nursing practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-69
Author(s):  
Svetlana Kropotova
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Department Heads ◽  
Safe Work ◽  
Safety Compliance ◽  
Heavy Loads ◽  
Industrial Injuries ◽  
Nursing Professionals

The purpose of the study is to conduct a comparative analysis of the opinions of employees about professional safety in order to identify problems and implement measures to improve the working conditions of nursing professionals. Results. The main problem in solving the issues of safe work of nursing personnel remains: insufficiently equipped workplace of a specialist, insufficient wages, the influence of chemicals, carrying heavy loads, exposure to radiation, contact with infections, psychotraumatic factors, etc. Conclusion. Senior nurses and department heads carry out activities to facilitate or improve the working conditions of nurses. Create, as far as possible, comfortable conditions for the work and rest of nurses. They also oversee workplace safety compliance. The proof is the absence of cases of industrial injuries.

scholarly journals INVESTIGATING EMPLOYEE PERCEPTIONS OF WORKPLACE SAFETY AND SAFETY COMPLIANCE USING PLS-SEM AMONG TECHNICAL EMPLOYEES IN MALAYSIA

2017 ◽  
pp. 44-61
Author(s):  
Chandrakantan Subramaniam ◽  
Faridahwati Mohd. Shamsudin ◽  
Ahmad Said Ibrahim Alshuaibi
Keyword(s):  
Structural Model ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Worker Safety ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Safety Research ◽  
Safety Compliance

Safety is an important employment issue that needs to be tackled because of the cost implications it brings to organizations. As Malaysia aspires to become a developed nation by 2020, reducing workplace accidents is one of the key employment concerns it aims to address.Literature indicates that one of the reasons for occupational accidents at work is unsafe behavior. Adding to the safety research literature, this study examined to what extent perceptions of safety affect employees to comply with safety behavior at work. A survey was conducted in a big telecommunication company in Malaysia among 135 technical employees.Partial least square (PLS) analysis was employed in this study to test the research hypothesis.Our measurement model resulted in five facets of employee perception whose validity and reliability were confirmed. The analysis on the structural model revealed that management safety practices was the most significant predictor of safety compliance, followed by, co-worker safety and job safety. However, no significant effect was found for supervisor safety and satisfaction with safety programs. Practical implications, limitations of the study, and future research direction are discussed.

scholarly journals Safety-Specific Passive-Avoidant Leadership and Safety Compliance among Chinese Steel Workers: The Moderating Role of Safety Moral Belief and Organizational Size

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 2700
Author(s):  
Lin Liu ◽  
Qiang Mei ◽  
Lixin Jiang ◽  
Jinnan Wu ◽  
Suxia Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Moral Belief ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Organizational Size ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Steel Workers ◽  
Safety Compliance ◽  
Passive Avoidant

Despite the documented relationship between active-approaching leadership behaviors and workplace safety, few studies have addressed whether and when passive-avoidant leadership affects safety behavior. This study examined the relationship between two types of safety-specific passive-avoidant leadership, i.e., safety-specific leader reward omission (SLRO) and safety-specific leader punishment omission (SLPO), and safety compliance, as well as the moderating effects of an individual difference (safety moral belief) and an organizational difference (organizational size) in these relationships. These predictions were tested on a sample of 704 steel workers in China. The results showed that, although both SLRO and SLPO are negatively related to safety compliance, SLPO demonstrated a greater effect than SLRO. Moreover, we found that steel workers with high levels of safety moral belief were more resistant to the negative effects of SLRO and SLPO on safety compliance. Although steel workers in large enterprises were more resistant to the negative effects of SLPO than those in small enterprises, the SLRO-compliance relationship is not contingent upon organizational size. The current study enriched the safety leadership literature by demonstrating the detrimental and relative effects of two types of safety-specific passive-avoidant leadership on safety compliance and by identifying two boundary conditions that can buffer these relationships among steel workers.

Trust in leader as a pathway between ethical leadership and safety compliance

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibeawuchi K. Enwereuzor ◽  
Busayo A. Adeyemi ◽  
Ike E. Onyishi
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Leadership ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Hospital Staff ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Least Squares Regression ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Hospital Staff Nurses ◽  
Safety Compliance ◽  
Trust In Leaders ◽  
Trust In Leader

Purpose Although a great number of studies have established the important role of leadership in workplace safety, it appears researchers are yet to consider the role that trust in leaders could play between ethical leadership and safety compliance within healthcare. To address that imbalance, this study aims to investigate the relationship between ethical leadership and safety compliance, with trust in the leader as the mediator. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected in three time periods from 237 hospital staff nurses (76.8 per cent women and 23.2 per cent men). Ordinary least squares regression-based path analysis using PROCESS for statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) macro was used to test the hypotheses. Findings Results showed that ethical leadership was positively related to trust in a leader but was not related to safety compliance. In addition, trust in leader was positively related to safety compliance and also mediated the positive relationship between ethical leadership and safety compliance. Research limitations/implications The data were collected within healthcare organisations in a few localities in Nigeria, making it difficult to generalise the findings beyond the current sample let alone the entire country or even continent. Practical implications The findings imply that ethical leadership may not be directly effective in improving the safety compliance of subordinate nurses unless such a leader first develops a trust-based relationship with the subordinates. Originality/value The current study builds on and extends the burgeoning research in the area of leadership and employee outcome by investigating not only the direct relationship between ethical leadership and safety compliance but also incorporating trust in a leader as a mediator of this relationship.

The Role of Knowledge Management for Industrial Safety Compliance

2020 ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Shih-Ming Pi ◽  
Ghassan Khaled Al-Zu’bi
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Industrial Safety ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Safety Compliance

The paper investigates the role of knowledge management in safety compliance in the industrial sector. The article reveals that problems with safety compliance have a negative impact on the enterprises’ activity. It is emphasized that knowledge management, which has recently become a novel tendency in business, has a strong influence on the managerial activities of the enterprise. Different approaches to defining the concept of knowledge management are identified. The creation of knowledge management was supported by many political, social, economic, and technological factors, including a broader spread of information technologies systems in companies, communication opportunities in computer networks, the segmentation and specialization of skills, the mobility of the workforce, and intellectual assets as well as competitive problems in the business environment. The article represents and analyzes the most common and popular definitions of this concept. Safety compliance has a positive impact on the economic and non-economic activities of the enterprise. A systemic management approach to workplace safety and health in industries has been implemented for many years already. It was figured out that there is close relations between knowledge management and safety compliance. To be more specific the problems with safety compliance have a negative impact on the enterprises’ activity, so safety compliance should become the priority of the enterprises’ management. The article demonstrates what actions are needed for safety compliance applications and how they are connected with knowledge management steps. It was revealed that the positive impact of security measures (renewable employment, stable development of the enterprise, better ecological performance) are connected with enhanced financial and non-financial results of the enterprises’ activity and, as a result, with knowledge management. Keywords: knowledge management, safety compliance, sustainable development, safety, knowledge application, industry, safety training.

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