Promoting Industrial Safety Based on Safety Culture's Worker: SAIPA Case Study

The concept of safety culture was first used in the 1987 report of the Nuclear Agency on the Chernobyl disaster, and then the weakness of the safety culture was identified as the cause of the major disasters. Since the creation of the word safety culture in this report, it has been widely used and described and practically evaluated for its popularity. Safety culture defines as a group and individual values, attitudes and beliefs, capabilities, and behavior patterns that determine the commitment, manner, and skill of the organization's health and safety management.

A descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study was conducted on automotive workers for evaluating the status of their safety culture. The target population was employees of the automobile industry of an Iranian automobile company (SAIPA) in 2014.

The results of this study showed that there was no relationship between safety culture and marital status. It was found that people with a college education had a significantly lower level of safety culture than those with a high school diploma or lower (P<0.05). There was a positive relationship between work experience and safety culture. There was no relationship between safety culture and those having a second job. Job tasks had a diverse safety culture. The mean safety culture score in employees who had experienced an accident was significantly lower than those who did not. Older employees showed to have a higher safety culture score.

Safety culture had a positive relationship with various factors such as (please name a few). Unfortunately, these factors were not studied thoroughly in Iranian automotive industries. According to the results of this study, on the job training and considering, incentives for the workers could be useful for promoting their safety culture