Relationship Between Safety Management Practices And Safety Performance In Defence Industry

Abstract

The objective of this study is to determine the relationship between
safety communication, training, workers’ involvement and safety performance. This
study was conducted among workers in defence industry. This study used
questionnaires to obtain responses from the workers. A pilot study was performed
to determine the reliability and validity of the instrument. In the actual survey in
which 250 questionnaires were randomly distributed and about 193 valid
responses were obtained. The correlation analysis of this study indicated that there
is a positive significant relationship between safety communication, training,
workers’ involvement and safety performance. The regression analysis indicated
that safety communication explain more than 50 percent of the variation in safety
performance whilst, safety training and workers’ involvement does not indicated
any variations. Therefore, the finding of this study suggested that communication
at the workplace is a vital factor in ensuring effective safety performance.