scholarly journals A Bayesian Network Model for Reducing Accident Rates of Electrical and Mechanical (E&M) Work

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. 2496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Chan ◽  
Francis Wong ◽  
Carol Hon ◽  
Tracy Choi
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Network ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Bayesian Network Model ◽  
Safety Attitude ◽  
Safety Procedures ◽  
Relational Network

Accidents in Repair, Maintenance, Alteration, and Addition (RMAA) work have become a growing concern, in recent years. The repair and maintenance works of electrical and mechanical (E&M) installations involves a variety of trades, a large number of practitioners and a series of high-risk activities. The uniqueness of E&M work, in the RMAA sector, requires a discrete and specific research to improve its safety performance. Understanding the causal relationships between safety factors and the number of accidents becomes crucial to develop a more effective safety management strategy. The Bayesian Network (BN) model is proposed to establish a probabilistic relational network between the causal factors, including both safety climate factors and personal experience factors that have influences on the number of accidents related to E&M RMAA work. The data were collected using a survey questionnaire, involving a hundred and fifty-five E&M practitioners. The BN results demonstrated that safety attitude and safety procedures were the most important factors to reduce the number of accidents. The proposed BN provides the ability to find out the most effective strategy with the best utilization of resources, to reduce the chance of a high number of E&M accidents, by controlling a single factor or simultaneously controlling, both, the safety climate and personal factors, to improve safety performance.

Safety climate and injury occurrence of repair, maintenance, minor alteration and addition works

Facilities ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 188-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol K.H. Hon ◽  
Jimmie Hinze ◽  
Albert P.C. Chan
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Lower Probability ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Minor Alteration ◽  
Injury Occurrence ◽  
Management Commitment ◽  
Safety Attitude ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The repair, maintenance, minor alteration and addition (RMAA) sector has been expanding in many developed cities. Safety problems of the RMAA sector have attracted the attention of many governments. This study has the objectives of comparing the level of safety climate of workers, supervisors and managers in the RMAA sector; and explaining/predicting the impact of safety climate on injury occurrence of workers, supervisors and managers. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire survey was administered to RMAA contracting companies in Hong Kong. Findings – When comparing the safety climate perception of workers, supervisors and managers in the RMAA sector, the supervisors group had the lowest mean safety climate score. Results showed that a positive workforce safety attitude and acceptance of safety rules and regulations reduced the workers' likelihood of having injuries. A reasonable production schedule led to a lower probability of supervisors being injured. Management commitment and effective safety management reduced the probability of managers being injured. Originality/value – This study revealed variations of safety climate at the different levels in the organizational hierarchy and their varying influence on safety performance of the RMAA sector. Safety of RMAA works could be improved by promulgating specific safety measures at the different hierarchy levels.

scholarly journals Organizational and Individual Safety Factors in Work on Chemical Tanker Vessels

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Line Raknes Hjellvik ◽  
Randi Elisabeth Hope Aga ◽  
Bjørn Sætrevik
Keyword(s):  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Safety Management Systems ◽  
Safety Attitudes ◽  
Safety Attitude

Chemical tanker vessels are at risk for large-scale accidents due to the nature of their cargo and operating conditions, challenging environments as well as general maritime hazards. To counteract such hazards, the ship-owning company works on maintaining safety at the organizational level, and the captain instantiates safety regulations on the interpersonal level. The crew members are expected to maintain safety by having accurate situation awareness, and beneficial safety attitudes and behaviour. We pre-registered an analysis to test for associations between safety variables in a survey for chemical tanker vessel crews. A structural equation model revealed that the ship-owning company’s safety climate and the captain’s leadership style were associated with the vessel’s safety climate. Further, the vessel’s safety climate was associated with individual safety attitude, situation awareness and adherence to safety management systems. Safety attitude had a central role in the model and was associated with situation awareness, reporting attitude, safe behaviour and adherence to safety management systems. The results imply that it may be beneficial to monitor and improve safety attitudes among crew on chemical tanker vessels and in similar work-environments.

scholarly journals Enhancing Safety Performance by Recognizing the Role of Perceived Management Commitment to Safety in the Jordanian Healthcare Industry: Conceptual Framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (01) ◽  
pp. 01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Adel Al-Bsheish
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
The Body ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Healthcare Industry ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Management Commitment

<p>Nowadays, workplace safety is a clear concern for both individuals and organizations, particularly in developing countries such as Jordan. This is evidenced by the expanding body of safety-related literature published on this regard. This paper develops a conceptual framework of safety management based on perceived organizational support theory. The main aim of this framework is to disclose the causal links between a physiological empowerment, respect, perceived management commitment to safety and safety performance based on previous studies. Such framework could have impact on practical issues in healthcare industry, as well as enhancing the body of related literature on perceived management commitment to safety. Consequently, this framework presents a new trend concerning perceived management commitment to safety through investigating each dimension of safety climate individually.    </p><p> </p>

Innovation in safety management: A moderated mediation model

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (9) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Guan Wang ◽  
Xiaohu Zhou
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Innovation Behavior

We developed and tested a model linking safety innovation intention with safety innovation behavior and safety performance. Participants were 407 employees of blasting, chemical, mining, and other high-risk industries in China. The results indicated that safety innovation intention was positively associated with safety performance, and safety innovation behavior played a partial mediating role in this relationship. In addition, safety climate moderated the relationship between safety innovation intention and safety innovation behavior, which mediated the interaction of safety climate and safety innovation behavior in predicting safety performance. The results support the importance of the effect of organizations' subjective intention and climate on their innovation behavior and performance in the safety domain.

The relationship between safety attitude and safety performance in the petrochemical industry: The mediating role of safety climate

Work ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Sanaz Karimpour ◽  
Fereshteh Jahani ◽  
Gholam Abbas Shirali
Keyword(s):  
Petrochemical Industry ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Statistical Population ◽  
Safety Attitudes ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Safety Attitude ◽  
The Relationship

BACKGROUND: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between safety attitudes and safety performance considering the mediating role of safety climate in the petrochemical industry. METHOD: The statistical population of this study included all 1700 employees in the petrochemical industry of Iran, among whom 320 were randomly selected as the participants and completed the research questionnaire. Then, the validity (content, convergent, and divergent) and reliability (Cronbach’s alpha and composite reliability) of the instrument were examined, and the research hypotheses were tested using Smart partial least squares (PLS) software. RESULTS: The results showed that the model has goodness of fit and, thereby, the positive effect of safety attitude on safety performance was confirmed. In addition, the mediating role of safety climate in the relationship between safety attitude and safety performance was proved. That is, 39.6% of the total effect of safety attitude on safety performance was explained through the mediating role of safety climate. CONCLUSION: The findings of this study can improve safety culture and bring about excellent safety performance in petrochemical industries.

scholarly journals Relationships among Perceived Control, Safety Attitude, and Safety Performance: A Case Study on Wastewater Treatment Plant Workers

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12573
Author(s):  
Chung-Fah Huang ◽  
Yu-Long Tsai ◽  
Wen-Hua Lu
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Perceived Control ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Variance Analysis ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Hierarchical Regression Analysis ◽  
Safety Attitudes ◽  
Safety Attitude

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are an indispensable part of the infrastructure of modern cities. However, because of the existence of many confined working spaces in them, they also pose significant risks of occupational hazards for workers. Therefore, this study was conducted on WWTP workers in Kaohsiung, Taiwan to explore the connections among the perceived control, safety attitude, and safety performance of WWTP workers. In total, 123 valid questionnaires were returned for descriptive statistical analysis, variance analysis, correlation analysis, and hierarchical regression analysis. According to the analysis results, the WWTP workers in this study indicated a mid to high level of perceived control, and they generally believed they were also responsible for industrial safety management. The variance analysis results showed that workers of a different gender, age, service unit, and seniority had significantly different safety attitudes. The hierarchical regression analysis results indicated that the perceived control of the WWTP workers had a significant influence on their safety performance through their safety attitude, which served as a mediator between perceived control and safety performance. It is hoped that these findings can provide references for WWTP managers and workers in their daily communication, operation, and safety management system introduction to ensure better safety.

scholarly journals Analysis the Effect of Leadership to Safety Climate, Safety Culture and Safety Performance

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Nurul Khasanah ◽  
Kholil . ◽  
Sugiarto .
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Modeling Analysis ◽  
Research Analysis

In this era of globalisation, occupational safety is the main spotlight in every industry. By implementing a safety management system in the workplace, it is hoped that it can shape the safety climate and positive safety culture, which can be assessed from zero accidents, workforce behaviour and support for the safety of oneself and coworkers. The main objective of this research was to analyse the effect of leadership on safety climate, safety culture and safety performance. This research was conducted at a plastic packaging manufacturer, PT. Berlina Tbk Tangerang with 133 participants and used the SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) analysis method. The results of the research analysis showed that leadership, safety climate and safety culture have a simultaneous significant effect on 83% safety performance.

scholarly journals Exploring the Effects of Safety Climate on Worker’s Safety Behavior in Subway Operation

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8310
Author(s):  
Yongliang Deng ◽  
Haolun Guo ◽  
Miaomiao Meng ◽  
Ying Zhang ◽  
Shuangshuang Pei
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Safety Level ◽  
Safety Communication ◽  
Total Influence

The safety climate is becoming more and more important in the processes of subway operation safety management due to various accidents. The research objective of this study is to explore the effects of safety climate and personal factors on safety behavior in subway operation. First, a conceptual model is developed based on the literature review and expert experience. Then, data are collected from 352 workers in the Xuzhou subway operation company by questionnaire survey. Third, the structural equation model is employed to do model analysis based on SPSS and AMOS, and the final model is achieved through a serious of model tests and modification. At last, the quantitative effect of safety climate on worker’s safety behavior in subway operation is obtained and analyzed. The results show that the descending order of total influence effect of safety climate on safety behavior is safety attitude (0.36), safety communication (0.265), safety policy (0.238), safety education and training (0.1), management commitment (0.099), and safety participation (0.073), respectively. The total influence effects of mediator variables (safety awareness and safety ability) are 0.242 and 0.194, respectively. This study would be beneficial by offering recommendations in regard to worker’s safety behavior to raise the safety level in subway operation.

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