Safety Climate Dimensions and its Determinants in a Tile Industry in the West of Iran 2019

Unfavorable safety climate can affect the workers’ performance and health negatively and increase the costs of treatment for employers. So, the current study was conducted with the aim of investigating the safety climate and its determinants among workers in one of the tile industries in the West of Iran.

This cross-sectional study was conducted on 135 people in a tile industry in the west of Iran. Data collection tools included demographic, contextual, and safety climate questionnaires. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, Spearman’s correlation-coefficient, Mann-Whitney, and Kruskal-Wallis test.

The mean and standard deviation of the safety climate score was 61.37±11.  Furthermore, 8.1%, 78.5%, and 13.35% of the participants reported unfavorable, moderate, and favorable safety climate conditions, respectively. Safety climate had no significant correlation with workers’ age, gender, level of education, work experience, and marital status (p>0.05). However, the safety climate had a significant association with the work unit (p=0.034). Moreover, a significant association was observed between safety climate and its dimensions (p<0.05).

The results showed that safety climate was not affected by the workers’ demographic characteristics, but it was affected by the work environment and management of the work environment. Considering the significant association between safety climate and its dimensions, the improvement in any of its dimensions can improve the safety climate.