The effect of safety climate on safety behavior with intervention

Abstract

Safety climate influences safety behavior and tends to unsafe behavior. Accidents caused by unsafe behavior are quite high, 80%-85% than unsafe conditions. Previous research has addressed the safety climate to safety behavior by looking at the impact and involvement of individuals and the result is controlled safety climate to increase in safety behavior. Changes in unsafe behavior need to be made by applying intervention methods. Based on this, research is carried out on the influence of safety climate on safety behavior by providing interventions to change behavior. The study was conducted on 198 production workers in manufacturing companies. The safety climate influence analysis was conducted using the NOSACQ-50 questionnaire and multivariate linear regression test, Structural Equation Model (SEM) to see who influenced worker behavior and T-Paired test to see results of the given intervention. Implementation of behavior change is done by intervention. Intervention is provided by installing special safety signs at work and training for workers. The results of the intervention were analyzed using the Critical Behavior Checklist (CBC). The results of the influence test showed that management had a large influence on worker behavior with 5 variables. Testing with SEM showed that there were 3 variables with significant values so that worker behavior was influenced by management opinions and attitudes. The T-Paired test showed that unsafe behavior decreased and safe behavior increased after the intervention was administered. Thus, management has a considerable influence on the formation of worker behavior so management needs to participate in realizing work safety.