Impact of Safety Culture Implementation on Driving Performance among Oil and Gas Tanker Drivers: A Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) Approach

Mohammed Abdulrab,Ahmad Shahrul Nizam Isha,Muhammad Ajmal,Al-Baraa Abdulrahman Al-Mekhlafi,Ahmed Farouk Kineber,Nicholas Chileshe

doi:10.3390/su13168886

Abstract

This research aims to develop a safety culture model by investigating the relationship between safety culture and driving performance. In previous studies, safety culture has been one of the factors that determine safety issues. These issues were then contextually transformed via a pilot study and organized in the form of a theoretical model. The data were collected from 307 oil and gas tanker drivers in Malaysia through questionnaire surveys. Consequently, structural equation models of partial least squares (PLS-SEM) were applied to statistically assess the final model of this study. The results showed that the implementation of safety culture contributes to driving performance at a substantial level; there is a strong association with an effect of 67.3%. The findings of this research would serve as a benchmark for decision-makers in the oil and gas transportation sector, as promoting an awareness of safety culture should boost the efficiency of drivers. This research fills a gap in knowledge by identifying that positive safety culture practices and mindset are direct antecedents for the improvement of driver performance and, thus, the avoidance of road accidents.

Highlights

IntroductionFatigue in truck drivers is generally identified as the main safety issue because it has consistently been linked to road crashes [1,2,3,4,5,6]
Common method bias explains the variance in the results of an analysis as being attributed to the measurement method rather than to the constructs that are described through the measurements [110]
The findings show that the enhancement of the safety culture among oil and gas tanker drivers will contribute 67.3% to the level of driving performance

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Introduction

Fatigue in truck drivers is generally identified as the main safety issue because it has consistently been linked to road crashes [1,2,3,4,5,6]. Perceptions of what constitutes a safe environment may be different from person to person, for instance the perceptions of the safety directors may differ from those of the dispatchers. These perceptual differences may represent a tendency to disconnect from negative results and connect to positive results, depending on the self-serving motivations and bias of the individual [14]. There is evidence to show that people explain and interpret their safety environments according to their beliefs, the perceived importance

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