This study was conducted based on a survey targeting the chemical laboratory research workers of research institute within the company where safety matters are considered importantly among a variety of industry sectors. Based on the preliminary survey...
This study was conducted based on a survey targeting the chemical laboratory research workers of research institute within the company where safety matters are considered importantly among a variety of industry sectors. Based on the preliminary survey results, the workers were showing low safety consciousness compared to their high level of education and knowledge of major and this study was started in order to seek improvement measures on safety consciousness of research workers in chemical industry having higher risk compared to other industries. Through the survey, the study was conducted with a purpose of examining the general status related to safety of organization, an influence on the improvement of safety culture within the organization by the degree of safety consciousness of laboratory research workers, an influence on the improvement of safety culture by the safety behavior of organization, and verifying the mediating effect of safety behavior of organization in the relationship between the improvement of safety culture and the level of safety consciousness.
When summarizing the main research results, the recognition on the importance of safety consciousness is known but the consciousness on prioritizing the safety is relatively low due to the performance-based organizational culture and requires fostering of safety cultural climate at the organizational level. The level of safety consciousness of researchers were shown to cause a positive influence on the improvement of safety culture of organization and the safety behaviors(safety management policies, systems, safety education and training) of organization were shown to mediate the relationship between the level safety consciousness and the improvement of safety culture of organization. When summarizing these results, the safety activities of organization can be known as a mandatory element in the degree of improvement of safety culture, and especially the factors of safety education activities, safety policies and management systems are a parameter that mediates the degree of improvement of safety consciousness and safety culture of researchers which are very important factors for reducing the industrial accidents through the improvement of safety culture. Therefore, in order to improve and develop the safety culture, it suggests that a multifaceted effort is required to provide the interaction between personal factors and organizational factors.
Conclusively, by identifying the factors required for improving the safety culture within the organization, this study aims to contribute in the spread of safety culture through the improvement of safety consciousness of researchers in the chemical industry.