Journal of the Korean Society of Safety (한국안전학회지)

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The Relationship between Workers' Safety Behaviors and Safety Climate in Chemical Industry

화학산업 작업자의 안전행동과 안전분위기의 상관관계

  • Baek, Jong-bae (Department of Safety Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation) ;
  • Uhm, Minyong (Department of Nursing, Daewon University College) ;
  • Kim, Ji-sun (Department of Safety Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation)
  • 백종배 (한국교통대학교 안전공학과) ;
  • 엄민용 (대원대학교 간호학과) ;
  • 김지선 (한국교통대학교 안전공학과)
  • Received : 2015.01.02
  • Accepted : 2015.09.10
  • Published : 2015.10.31
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Abstract

Korea government has established and enforced countermeasures about the various policy of industrial accident prevention. Recent chemical accidents included hazardous materials. Exposure to these chemicals can cause serious environmental poisoning and various health problems. The key factor causing these major accidents may be associated with the mistake in workers' safety behaviors. Some researchers noted workers' safety behaviors may be related to workers' safety climate. In this research, a survey was conducted to explore workers' safety behaviors and safety climate in a large petrochemical company in Korea. The company processes major petrochemical materials and any spills can be hazardous and cause chemical disasters. In this study, we explored one petrochemical company to investigate three hypotheses. 593 workers were surveyed for this study. We checked association between workers' safety behavior and safety climate. The survey result shows the people who have safety climate do safe behavior.

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