The Assessment of Safety Culture in the Paper Industry - A case study of a company

• Main Authors: Sheng-Chueh Hsiao, 蕭聖覺
• Other Authors: Dr. Kuo-Hua Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41101892153801765356

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 勞工關係學系 === 100 === Abstract "Safety" should be an important part of the sustainable management for the enterprise. A comfortable and safe workplace for the employees can help to increase the competitiveness of the enterprise. However, safety is not merely a concept but a kind of habit or culture. In recent years, "safety culture" has been increasingly attended in the advanced countries of the industrial safety and health, which is also an important issue for the enterprise. The process of the paper industry implies many potential risk factors, damage from which is worst in both hands and feet of the labors. Its disabling severity rate and total damage index are the highest among the industries in Taiwan. In view of this, this study used the Safety Culture Assessment Questionnaire to understand the current situation of the safety culture of paper industry in Taiwan. This study distributed the questionnaires to 1136 employees of four factories of a paper company, and 706 valid returns were obtained with a valid return rate of 66.17%. The collected data were analyzed by using the SPSS V17.0 software with various statistical analysis methods, including frequency distribution, average, standard deviation, percentage, Cronbach α coefficient, KMO measure of sampling adequacy, Bartlett's test of sphericity, factor analysis, t-test, ANOVA, post-hoc LSD test, average integral comparison, Pearson product-moment correlation and multiple regression analysis. This study made the questionnaire based on the five-point Liker scale, in which the Cronbach α coefficients are all above 0.70 in both the pretest and formal measurement. After the factor analysis, the absolute value of the factor loading index under each safety culture dimension is between 0.525 and 0.894. Therefore, this questionnaire has a considerable validity and reliability. The results show the average of every safety culture index is above 3 and the positive demonstration of safety culture is within the range of “acceptable-agree” or “agree- strongly agree”. The score percentage of the entire questionnaire is 78.137％, it indicates that the samples of this study represent above average level on safety culture. For the factors of employee background and factory, it can be found that the following factors show significant correlation with the difference of safety culture, such as department attribute, accident experience in three years, educational background, education and training frequency within one year, and working factory. Among the study samples, those who work in manufacturing department, have no accident experience, lack educational qualifications, or get frequent education and training reveal a better safety culture. For the correlation analysis of the safety culture dimensions, it represents a positive correlation between the eight dimensions. Among all factors of employee background, “frequency of education and training”, “injury experience”, “educational background” and “service years” are significantly predictable to the dimensions of the safety culture assessment. Furthermore, “frequency of education and training” is positive, while the “injury experience”, “educational background” and “service years” are negative. Key words: paper industry, safety culture, dimensions of safety culture assessment