The Effect of Individual and Organizational Factors on Improving the Health, Safety and Environmental Behaviors of Employees in Urban Management

Apart from the economic costs associated with high accident rates, the occurrence of major work-related injuries may also have a serious impact on the internal and external credibility of the organization and its activities and services/products. It seems that the cause of an accident cannot be simply related to a specific action performed by an individual, but rather due to the interaction of different individual and organizational conditions. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of individual and organizational factors on the improvement of health, safety, and environmental (HSE) behaviors of the executive staff of Tehran Municipality. The statistical population of this study was executive staff, including 137 staff and municipal services in Tehran Municipality with a number of about 1000 people.

The data collection tool in this study was a researcher-made questionnaire based on the research literature. To investigate the effect of individual and organizational factors on improving employee behavior, the structural equation technique was used using Smart-Pls software.

The results showed that individual factors (attitude towards behavior, awareness, knowledge, and perceived risk) and organizational factors (management commitment, HSE atmosphere, HSE culture, and effective communication) are effective in improving the behavior of the Tehran Municipality executive staff. As a result.

It is necessary for employees to learn the steps of the behavioral safety process and its strategy, and on the other hand, the organization should provide a platform for the whole system to participate in the safety process.