- Title
- Evaluating the safety climate effects on employee safety behaviour in ESKOM distribution Eastern Cape operating unit
- Creator
- Rondganger, Aron Dominique
- Subject
- Eskom (Firm) Industrial safety -- South Africa
- Subject
- Employee health promotion -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MBA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/47755
- Identifier
- vital:40368
- Description
- Work-related injuries have a significant social and economic impact on organisations and countries. Safety climate has been found to be the leading indicator to predict employee safety behaviour in an effort to reduce incidents and injuries. The organisation selected has implemented a health and safety strategy that includes a safety management system that defines safety practices. There has been an improvement seen at an organisation level, however this improvement is not wide spread. The aim of this study is to understand the role of safety climate and its effect on safety behaviour within the Eastern Cape Operating Unit. The sample only consisted of employees from the organisation selected for this study. A stratified sampling method was chosen and three hundred (300) questionnaires were distributed to managers (10), supervisors (20) and field workers (270). A total of two hundred and seventy eight employees (92.7% response rate) participated in the study consisting of nine managers (90% response rate), seventeen supervisors (85% response rate) and two hundred and forty-nine field workers (92.2% response rate). The empirical results show that organisational-level safety climate has a significant influence on team-level safety climate. The overall safety climate within the organisation was not high and the safety climate perceptions of managers, supervisors and field workers were not related. Organisation-level and team-level safety climate was found to influence safety behaviour. The results also revealed that the compliance and participation safety behaviours reported by managers, supervisors and field workers are high. It was further discovered that the safety behaviours of these three groups are related. The implementation of the recommendations that were highlighted from these results would have a significant improvement in the organisation’s safety climate and this would lead to reduced unsafe acts and safety related incidents in the workplace.
- Format
- xi, 116 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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