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An Empirical Study on the Safety Climate and Worker's Safe Work Behavior in Semiconductor Industry Related Work Site in Korea  

Chung, Nak-Kyung (Graduate School of Venture, Hoseo University)
Kim, Hong (Graduate School of Venture, Hoseo University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.23, no.2, 2008 , pp. 57-64 More about this Journal
Abstract
The Semiconductor industry in Korea has achieved a great contribution to the growth of its economy for the last 20 years with its product export ranked to #1 nowadays. However, the working environment in semiconductor industry is always exposed to a potential risk of critical safety issue for workers with many kinds of utilities used such as toxic chemicals, gases, high vacuum and high voltages of electricity. This study is focused on empirical research to find out the factors on safety climate and to examine the relationships of safety climate and safe work behaviour in the work site of Korea semiconductor industry. As a result of simulation, a strong positive relationships and safe work behaviour have been identified in this study. Its result and implications has been discussed and suggested further studies on its limitation from this study.
Keywords
supportive and supervisory environment; worker's involvement; appraisal work hazard; safety competence; safety climate; safe work behaviour;
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