Open AccessThe Relationship Between Organizational Safety Culture and Organization Safety Performance. The Mediating Role of Safety Management System
Author(s) -
Victor Olabode Otitolaiye,
FS Abd Aziz,
M Munauwar,
Ömer Faruk
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of occupational safety and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2738-9707
pISSN - 2091-0878
DOI - 10.3126/ijosh.v11i3.39766
Subject(s) - safety culture , organizational safety , mediation , organizational culture , path analysis (statistics) , business , occupational safety and health , operations management , organizational performance , public relations , marketing , engineering , management , computer science , medicine , organizational behavior and human resources , political science , pathology , machine learning , organizational engineering , law , economics
Safety performance is defined as efforts undertaken by organizations with the crucial aim of curtailing accidents and injuries to workers. It plays a crucial role in an organization aiming to achieve an anticipated outcome. A plethora of studies have found positive association between safety culture and safety performance of organizations. However, little is known on how the mechanism through which organizational safety culture exerts its influence on safety performance. Thus, this study investigates the indirect effect of safety management system in the relationship between organizational safety culture and safety performance.
Methods: This study employs the use of a 5-point Likert questionnaire to collect data from 134 respondents who are head of safety officers in F&B industries located in Lagos, Nigeria. SmartPLS 2.0 was used for data analysis.
Results: Results from path analysis revealed that safety culture and safety management system positively relate to safety performance. Furthermore, the mediation analysis indicated an indirect effect of safety management system in the relationship between safety culture and safety performance.
Conclusion: It is concluded that though safety culture has a significant positive relationship on safety performance, however its effect will be more if F&B organizations create and constantly implement a robust safety management system.