Work Safely at Workplace: Does Work Experience Influence Workers Safety Behaviour?

Abstract

Most of the issues related to safety practices in organization are always being related to the interaction between managerial aspect and workers behaviour on safety. However, previous study showed that demographic factors reported to be significant as there was an argument about how working tenure affects safety compliance differs between experienced and inexperienced workers. Thus, this study aim is to investigate the different between workers’ experience and inexperience on workers safety compliance. Using quantitative research design, data were collected through self-report questionnaires. This study used AMOS version 22 and SPSS version 22 to test confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and analysis of the descriptive data. T-test analysis has been performed to test the differences between experience and inexperience on workers safety compliance. The respondents for this study were 239 production workers in two Automotive Manufacturing and Assembly plants in Selangor, Malaysia. Results revealed that there were insignificant differences between inexperienced and experienced workers on the safety compliance. In conclusion, this research highlighted that there is no differences of safety compliance based on the working tenure. As contribution, this study provides information in promoting safety practices. Organization should focus on safety implementation for all workers despite their differences of work tenures because every worker are exposed to risk and require safety support from organizations. The research findings can be used by automotive manufacturing as a guideline for workers’ safety compliance enhancement.