Safety Climate Assessment of Furniture Industry: A Case Study

Abstract

Lack of safety awareness has caused many losses including accidents cost, insurance cost as well as indirect costs. Most of work accidents occurred due low perception of work safety. A measurement of safety climate for workers and head department should be considered to figure the condition of safety climate out. The assessment of safety climate is using Nordic Safety Climate Questionnaire (NOSACQ-50). The significance of differences in the safety climate between workers and head department is determined by Mann-Whitney test. The study was conducted on 100 worker samples spread across 10 production departments and 10 head departments in a furniture manufacture. The result shows that the safety climate level is quite low at the management safety justice, workers safety priority and risk non-acceptance dimensions. The safety climate of head departments shows a good enough result on the 4 dimensions and need an improvement on the 3 other dimensions. There are differences in perceptions between workers and head departments on commitment and competence of management, the management safety justice, workers safety priority and risk non-acceptance dimensions.