Abstract
Safety behavior is a crucial thing which must be considered concerning accidents in work areas. Work accidents are primarily led by unsafe behaviors. Those behaviors can be expressed based on the degree of safety compliance and safety participation of employees. Several studies related to safety behavior in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have been conducted. However, studies related to the integration of person-related factors and situation-related factors are rare. The purpose of the study is to observe the safety climate (as a situation-related factor), and safety motivation and safety knowledge (as person-related factors) toward safety compliance and safety participation in SMEs. This study was conducted on 29 Indonesian SMEs’ metal manufacturing, and a self-administered questionnaire was utilized as a research instrument. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to evaluate the effect of safety climate, safety motivation, and safety knowledge on safety behavior. The results showed that safety climate and safety knowledge are positively significant in influencing both safety compliance and safety participation. However, safety motivation has a positive significant effect on safety participation only. The implication of this result has been discussed.
Highlights
According to Geller (2001), safety behavior is an important aspect of workplace safety. Al-Hemoud and Al-Asfoor (2006) reported that 80% of accidents are triggered by unsafeHow to cite: Ansori, N., Widyanti, A., and Yassierli (2021)
This study was aimed to evaluate the effect of situation and person-related factors on safety behavior
The results of this study showed that safety climate was affected by safety knowledge, motivation, compliance, and participation
Summary
According to Geller (2001), safety behavior is an important aspect of workplace safety. Al-Hemoud and Al-Asfoor (2006) reported that 80% of accidents are triggered by unsafeHow to cite: Ansori, N., Widyanti, A., and Yassierli (2021). The Influence of Safety Climate, Motivation, and Knowledge on Worker Compliance and Participation: An Empirical Study of Indonesian SMEs. Ingenierıa e Investigación, 41(3), e83763. The Influence of Safety Climate, Motivation, and Knowledge on Worker Compliance and Participation: An Empirical Study. Adopting an appropriate safety behavior tends to reduce the number of accidents and lost work time (Seo, Lee, Kim, and Jee, 2015). Improving in this regard is required to prevent unexpected or undesirable events (Xu and Shi, 2017), so there is a noticeably negative relation between safety behavior and accidents (Wallace, 2016)
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