Relationship between Safety Culture and Job Stress among the Personnel of Telecom Companies

Job stress and unsafe behavior as the factors influencing the risk of mental and physical health problems in the workplace are known. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between job stress and safety culture among the Iran Telecom Companies.
This study was a descriptivel and cross-sectional in 2012 on 221 personnel of telecommunication companies was done in Shiraz, Iran. Sampling was done randomly and research tools, including job stress questionnaire (American Psychological Health Institute) and safety culture questionnaire was made. For data analysis, Chi-square and t-tests were used.
56.1 and 43.9 percent of those surveyed have a negative safety culture and safety culture were positive in 43.9 percent. In 79.6 percent of employees reported high stress. The relationship between safety culture and education, mean safety culture in people who had less education diploma, compared with persons with higher education was lower. The relationship between job stress and safety culture through the T-test showed a significant negative correlation between these two variables exist (P Given the significance of the relationship between job stress and safety culture in this study and the high level of stress in staff, Negative effects on the efficiency and focus of this issue and the subsequent reduction in productivity will follow.