The Simple and Multiple Relationship between neuroticism, Perceived work pressure and Safety Efficacy with Unsafe Behavior

literature shows that between 50 and 90 percent of work accidents and injuries occur due to unsafe behaviors and human mistakes. Safety experts believe that with increased focus and effort on human behavior, accidents caused by work can be significantly reduced, therefore, identifying factors related to unsafe behaviors are useful in preventing these accidents. This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the simple and multiple relationship between neuroticism, perceived work pressure and safety efficacy with unsafe behavior in employees of gas refinery in Ilam city.

The design of the current research was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of the present study included all the employees of Ilam city gas refinery. In order to conduct this research, 200 employees were selected by simple random sampling method. The instruments included safe behaviors, Five-factor personality model (items related to neuroticism) and Perceived work pressure questionnaires. Research data were analyzed by SPSS-20 software and Pearson correlation and multivariate regression analysis.

The results showed that there are significant positive relationships of neuroticism and perceived work pressure with unsafe behavior of employees. Also, there is a significant negative relationship between safety efficacy and unsafe behavior of employees. Regression analysis predicting the unsafe behavior of employees based on predicting variables, so that the predicting variables together predict 39% of the variance of the criterion variable (unsafe behavior).

Based on the results, it can be concluded that in the field of employees’ health, managers should pay attention to the role of neuroticism, perceived work pressure, safety efficacy and apply the results of the present study.