The Impact of Organizational Culture on  Safety-conscious Considering the Mediating Role of Employees' Job Satisfaction: A Case Study

Gholamabbas  Shirali; Bahram  Kohnavard; Payam   Amini; Behnoush   Jafari; Seyd Amin  Jazayeri

doi:10.18502/aoh.v5i4.7977

Gholamabbas Shirali Department of Occupational Health Engineering and Occupational Safety, School of Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
Bahram Kohnavard Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Payam Amini Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
Behnoush Jafari Department of Occupational Health Engineering and Occupational Safety, School of Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
Seyd Amin Jazayeri Supervisor of Safety Department & Technical protection of Oxin Steel

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/aoh.v5i4.7977

Keywords: Organizational culture; Safety-conscious; Job satisfaction; Steel industry

Abstract

Background: Employees' awareness about safety is a required element to develop a safe behavior so that it allows designing programs to improve safety performance at work. Therefore, the present study attempts to examine the effects of organizational culture on personal safety level with employees' satisfaction as a mediation variable.

Methods: This descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional study was conducted with 229 steel industry workers using a standard questionnaire. The questionnaire had 47 items arranged in two sections, including demographics and job information as section one and organizational culture, personnel safety awareness, and employees' satisfaction as section two. Data analyses were done using SPSS and LISREL, and the relationships between the variables were determined using a structural equations model.

Results: The mean score of satisfaction and personnel safety awareness was equal to 54.58 and 8.65, respectively. The highest mean score of organizational culture dimensions was obtained for patriarchy vs. matriarchy (33.2), and the lowest mean score was obtained for individualism vs. collectivism (16.08). Organizational culture was notably and positively affected by individualism vs. collectivism, avoiding uncertainty, and distance from power. In addition, there was a significant relationship between the total mean score of the dimensions of the organizational culture questionnaire and work wards (P<0.001).

Conclusion: The study showed that organizational culture has a direct relationship with personnel safety awareness and job satisfaction. These results point out that the human factor has the most important role in preventing occupational accidents. Accordingly, businesses and employers should establish and disseminate organizational culture in their organizations.