Hızlı Tren Şantiyesinde Çalışanların Güvenlik İklimi Algıları ve İşten Ayrılma Niyetleri Arasındaki İlişkinin İncelenmesi(Investigation of the Relationship Between Perceptions of the Safety Climate of the Employees at the High Speed Train Site and their Intention to Leave Work)

Abstract

Purpose- Within the scope of this study, it is aimed to examine the relationship between the safety climate perceptions of the people employed at the Bilecik high-speed train site and their intention to leave the job. Design/methodology/approach- The main body of the research consists of 185 people working at the high-speed train site in Bilecik. The sample consisted of 127 participants who answered the survey questions on 16-19 March 2021. Ethics committee approval was obtained for the questionnaire. The face-to-face questionnaire was composed of 3 parts;  In the first part, there are questions about the socio-demographic characteristics of the people who participated in the survey, in the second part, the safety climate scale and in the last part, the turnover intention scale. Within the scope of the research, the Shapiro-Wilk normality test was applied to examine the distribution of the scores obtained from the safety climate and intention to leave scales by using the SPSS 25.0 statistical package program. According to the results, since the scores obtained from the scales did not have a normal distribution, non-parametric analysis techniques were used in the analysis of the data. Findings- According to the results of the research, the participants' turnover intention scores, the management's point of view and rules (r=-0.016; p>0.05), co-workers and safety tendencies (r=0.022; p>0.05) and safety climate scale total It is understood that there are statistically insignificant relationships between the scores (r=-0.001; p>0.05). Although there was no significant relationship between the participants' perceptions of safety climate and their intention to leave, the results showed that participants' perceptions of safety climate were high and their intention to leave their job was moderate. Significant differences between the socio-demographic characteristics of the participants in the first part of the questionnaire, their perception of the safety climate and their intention to leave the job are shared in the findings section. Discussion- According to the results, although no significant relationship was found between the perception of safety climate and intention to leave, organizational, work-related, employee-related and external factors are seen as antecedents of turnover intention. It would be beneficial to investigate the relationship between the perception of occupational safety climate, which is thought to be one of these antecedents, and the intention to leave the job, in different sectors and work areas.