The Interpersonal Relationship Dealt by Safety Professionals in Universities

• Main Authors: Chien-Tsun Chen, 陳建村
• Other Authors: Tsung-Chih Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08372288848872450919

碩士 === 弘光科技大學 === 職業安全與防災研究所 === 100 === Interpersonal relationships among safety professionals are crucial for safety and health management services. Safety professionals must establish good interpersonal relationships to achieve outstanding performances when providing safety and health management services. The objectives of this study are to develop an interpersonal relationship scale (IRS) and investigate the factors that influence interpersonal relationships among safety professionals facing complex internal and external environments by surveying people or departments that frequently interact with safety professionals. This study selected 200 university safety professionals throughout Taiwan as participants. A questionnaire was mailed to each of the selected safety professionals, and 114 valid questionnaires were returned. The overall recovery rate was 72%. The results of exploratory factor analysis and reliability and validity tests indicate that the IRS developed in this study possesses good reliability and validity. Additionally, we found that staff in general affairs offices, laboratories or the people responsible for laboratories, and faculty and staff had the most frequent contact with university safety professionals. Furthermore, the result of multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) indicates that the presence or absence of occupational safety and health management units at universities has a statistically significant influence on interpersonal relationships among safety professionals. Therefore, we recommend that universities and colleges without occupational safety and health management units establish these units in accordance with the law to strengthen the structure of occupational safety and health. Occupational safety and health units can enable safety professionals to establish good interpersonal relationships and promote occupational safety and health management services. Key words: interpersonal relationship, safety professionals, MANOVA, safety department