Abstract
<p>Recent occupational accidents urged enterprises to put more importance on occupational health and safety practices. The pressure by both the public authority and the business and social milieu has played an important role in it. The present study investigated occupational health and safety (OHS) practices in five dimensions, i.e. safety procedures and risk management, safety and health rules, first aid support and training, occupational accident prevention, and organizational safety support. A survey form was developed in order to investigate the effect of OHS practices on work alienation, organizational commitment, and job performance as a throughput of such practices. The data set obtained from private sector enterprises was analyzed by structural equation modeling using least squares method. The findings of the analysis suggested that such OHS practices as safety procedures and risk management, safety and health rules, first aid support and training, and organizational safety support had a positive effect on organizational commitment. Moreover, it was seen that safety and health rules and organizational safety support decreased alienation, where first aid support and training played a role in increasing work alienation. Finally, safety procedures and risk management, safety and health rules, and organizational safety support had indirect effects on job performance of the employees.</p>
Highlights
Improving employee productivity and occupational health and safety (OHS) have been an important field of interest of industry especially in developing countries
The literature accepts that perceived organizational support is an effective factor on organizational commitment; the same became visible only recently in occupational safety climate literature
The focus of the present study is to investigate the likely impact of occupational health and safety on worker behaviors
Summary
Improving employee productivity and occupational health and safety (OHS) have been an important field of interest of industry especially in developing countries. Wachter and Yorio (2014) suggested that when organizations invested in a safety management system they approached towards improving the performance of accident reduction/prevention and the occupational safety Such organizations stated that they cared for winning the hearts and minds of their workers thanks to human performance systems based on safety management in order to develop and improve organizational commitment in workers. Ongoing attendance to safety results in organizational rewards, in turn increase employee motivation Such positive impress may impact other work attitudes like affective commitment besides raising safety climate (Clarke, 2006). Procedures and Risk Management (SPRM), Safety and Health Rules (SAHR), First Aid Support and Training (FAST), Organizational Safety Support (OSS), and Occupational Hazard Prevention (OHP) These dimensions as included in the research model are intended to test the causal relationship between worker commitment, work alienation, and job performance to investigate the effect OHS practices
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