Safety culture and its associated factors among the staff of a government medical/agricultural school inMalaysia
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2018, Vol 17, Issue 7
Abstract
Workers practicing good work safety culture (WSC) will have less accidents at their workplace. This principle applies in public institution as well.Work safety culture is usually studied in the dangerous sectors, but studies on work safety culture among staff of public university setting in Malaysia is scarce. The main objective of this study was to determine the proportion of knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) on work safety culture (WSC) and predictors for knowledge, attitudes, practice of work safety culture and its associated factors among the staff of a public university in Malaysia. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 220 randomly selected Malaysian employees who worked for at least one year intwo different faculties. The self-administered questionnaire was used to collect information on socio-demographic, employment characteristics, as well as data on knowledge, attitudes and practice towards work safety culture. The results of the study showed that out of 184 respondents who answered the questionnaire 174 (94.6%) had good knowledge on safety culture, 128 (69.6%) had positive attitudes towards safety culture and 140 (76.1%) had good practice towards safety culture. Binary logistic regression test showed that permanent staff is 1.19 times more likely to have higher knowledge (OR=1.19, 95% CI:1.09-5.70) compared to the other group of respondents. Staff with work duration 10 years and below (OR=1.51, 95% CI: 1.25-6.07), staff with degree/diploma (OR=1.29, 95% CI: 1.19-5.82) and married (OR=1.07, 95% CI: 1.02-5.38) are 1.51, 1.29 and 1.07 times respectively likely to have higher positive attitudes compared to their counterpart. Female staffis 1.92 times more likely to have higher good practice (OR=1.92, 95% CI: 1.45-6.91) compared to the male counterpart. In conclusion,the proportion of good knowledge, positive attitude and good practice of safety culture is high among the staff of UPM but still lower compared to those found in other studies on safety culture, most especially the attitude of the staff towards work safety culture. Based on the findings of this study, future research is needed to find out on why the employee in this institution of those that come from higher education background, higher working experience and single are associated with lower odds of positive attitude towards safety culture and the male staff are as well associated with lower odds of good practice towards safety culture. Hence, in creating awareness on work safety culture in other to minimize work related injury and improve work safety performance a good surveillance data on work safety culture in UPM are needed to determine the level of work safety culture and to plan programs for its improvement.
Authors and Affiliations
Odu J. O. , Titi Rahmawati H, Juliana J.
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