Assessment of safety climate status in personnel of Naeen Tile Industries Company in 2019

Kh Taherzadeh Chenani; R Jafari Nodoushan; F Madadizadeh; AM Vaziri Sarashk

doi:10.18502/tkj.v12i4.5875

Kh Taherzadeh Chenani Occupational Health Research Center, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
R Jafari Nodoushan Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
F Madadizadeh Research Center of Prevention and Epidemiology of Non-Communicable Disease, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
AM Vaziri Sarashk Occupational Health Research Center, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/tkj.v12i4.5875

Keywords: Safety Climate, Nordic Safety Climate Questionnaire, Safety Function, The Tile Industry

Abstract

Introduction: safety occupational safety researchers have always analyzed climate analysis. Climate can be investigated at different organizational levels. The purpose of the present study was to examine the safety climate among Nain tile factory workers and its relationship with having a history of occupational accidents.

Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical study was conducted in 2019 among the Nain Tile factory staff. The Nordic Safety Climate Questionnaire (NOSACQ-50) was used to assess the safety climate among workers of the different organizational departments. Out of 252, 142 workers were selected by simple random sampling. Descriptive and analytical statistics were used to analyze the data. The instrument's internal consistency was also calculated by calculating Richardson's coefficient of coefficient 0.942.coefficients were used for analytical analysis. Analyzes were performed in SPSS software version 19 with a significance level of 5%.

Results: The reliability coefficient of the whole questionnaire was calculated 0.95 using Cronbach's alpha test. The safety climate score was higher than two in all domains. Safety climate score was significantly correlated with work area and shift type. The highest score of safety climate was in the crusher section as well as in day shift work. There was no significant relationship between safety climate score and other variables of the study.

Conclusion: The safety atmosphere score is affected by the day shift and the workplace section. Therefore, it is suggested to modify the job plan and work shifts to improve the prevailing safety climate.