Impact of Safety Culture on Safety Performance; Mediating Role of Psychosocial Hazard: An Integrated Modelling Approach

Gehad Mohammed Ahmed Naji, Ahmad Shahrul Nizam Isha, Mysara Eissa Mohyaldinn, Stavroula Leka, Muhammad Shoaib Saleem, Syed Mohamed Nasir Bin Syed Abd Rahman and Mohammed Alzoraiki
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Gehad Mohammed Ahmed Naji: Department of Management & Humanities, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar 32610, Perak, Malaysia
Ahmad Shahrul Nizam Isha: Department of Management & Humanities, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar 32610, Perak, Malaysia
Mysara Eissa Mohyaldinn: Department of Petroleum Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar 32610, Perak, Malaysia
Stavroula Leka: Cork University Business School, University College Cork, T12 K8AF Cork, Ireland
Muhammad Shoaib Saleem: Department of Management & Humanities, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar 32610, Perak, Malaysia
Syed Mohamed Nasir Bin Syed Abd Rahman: Petronas Group Technology Solutions, Bandar Baru Bangi 43000, Selangor, Malaysia
Mohammed Alzoraiki: Department of Technology Management and Business, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Parit Raja 86400, Johor, Malaysia

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 16, 1-20

Abstract: We conceptualize that safety culture (SC) has a positive impact on employee’s safety performance by reducing their psychosocial hazards. A higher level of safety culture environment reduces psychosocial hazards by improving employee’s performance toward safety concerns. The purpose of this study was to evaluate how psychosocial hazard mediates the relationship between safety culture and safety performance. Data were collected from 380 production employees in three states of Malaysia from the upstream oil and gas sector. Structural equation modeling was implemented to test the suggested hypotheses. The proposed model was evaluated using structural equation modeling. A stratified sampling with a Likert 5-point scale was used to distribute the questionnaires. Furthermore, the proposed model was tested using the simulation of the structural equation and partial. According to our findings, all hypotheses were significant. A review of prior studies was used to select the items of the dimension for the data collection. Safety culture was assessed with psychosocial hazard to determine its direct and indirect impact on safety performance. Results suggest that to enhance safety performance (leading and lagging), psychosocial concerns in the workplace environments should be taken into consideration by employees. In addition, the findings showed that the psychosocial hazard fully mediates the relationship between safety culture and safety performance.

Keywords: safety culture; psychosocial hazards; safety performance; oil and gas; Malaysia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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