Abstract
The present work evaluates the safety climate as it reflects safety culture and is considered as a fast tool for assessing safety culture with minimum resources required. The evaluation is done for a private thermal combined cycle power company, Plant A. Another private company is also producing electric energy and water desalination, Plant B. Both plants are in Bahrain and under the management of one company. The evaluation is done through questionnaires, including all the staff of 210 employees. The questionnaire used in the present work is based on Nordic Safety Climate Questionnaire (NOSACQ-50) and modified by the help of the health and safety department of Plant A to be suitable to the power plant. Also, interviews are conducted to validate and support the questionnaire. Analysis has been done by different statistical methods using Microsoft Excel. The overall safety climate level of the two plants was found to be above average. The overall mean score of all results is 3.67 on a scale of 1 to 5. The mean score for most of the dimensions was higher than 3, which is considered a positive result. The level of safety for the daytime workers was found to be greater than the safety level of the shift workers. Also, the study reveals some factors that affect the safety climate level, such as, the nature of the work, the experience and the number of safety workshops attended. Â
Highlights
Human activities are in four sectors: domestic, agricultural, commercial and industrial
Identifying the level of safety culture is difficult and takes a long time, so evaluating the safety climate is more common, which is considered as a reflection or snapshot of the safety culture, so safety climate is considered as an alternative safety indicator (Guldenmund, 2010; Schein, 2010) Generally, the improvement of the safety culture includes a) determining the present level of safety climate, b) selecting the wanted level of safety climate, c) creating an evaluation action plan to improve the safety climate level
The mean score for Plant A is greater than plant B in all seven dimensions
Summary
Human activities are in four sectors: domestic, agricultural, commercial and industrial. The need to be safe while engaging in any activity is a part of human nature. Safety culture and safety climate are concepts that today attract much attention across a broad number of industries and sectors (Kines et al, 2011). The present work uses safety climate questionnaire and interviews in the power generation and water production industries in Bahrain. It involves two plants: plant A for power generation and plant B for power generation and water production. The desalination technique is reverse osmosis (RO) Both plants generate electric power from two blocks. The present work aims to evaluate the safety climate level, figure out the factors affecting the safety level, detect sub-climate existence between departments, and find out the weaknesses in the safety system in these two plants
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