Safety Culture Study – Malaysian Oil and Gas Similar to US Injury Stats
This safety culture study was found in the US National Library of Medicine – National Institutes of Health. The hybrid industry study covered Malaysian Oil and Gas.
What I found interesting was that the statistics for a foreign company industry were similar to the US. The study contained many gold nuggets of info that anyone can use in their own safety presentations.
The Study
The purpose of this safety culture study was to evaluate how psychosocial hazard mediates the relationship between safety culture and safety performance. Data were collected from 380 production employees in three states of Malaysia from the upstream oil and gas sector. Structural equation modeling was implemented to test the suggested hypotheses.
The hypotheses the study was trying to prove were:
- There is a significant relationship between safety culture and psychosocial hazard.
- There is a significant relationship between psychosocial hazards and safety performance.
- There is a significant relationship between safety culture and safety performance.
- A psychosocial hazard mediates the relationship between safety culture (management commitment, work environment, and involvement) and safety performance (leading and lagging indicators).
The conclusions of the study were:
According to the findings and discussion above, this study examined the mediating of psychosocial hazards in the relationship between safety culture and safety performance. The results found that the relationship between safety culture and safety performance is significant. In addition, psychosocial hazards have been shown to impact safety performance significantly. Furthermore, the outcomes demonstrated the mediating effect of psychosocial hazard as a mechanism that investigates the relationship between safety culture and safety performance.
Safety Culture Study – Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR)
As pointed out in every Workers Comp Rating Bureau statistic, the number of accidents has fallen over the last 30 years. A TRIR injury rate chart from the study heavily agreed with what the rating bureaus have reported over three decades – lower injury rates.
Severity Not Determined
I attempted to read through the references used by this study and could not find any passages in severity other than it was increasing overall. That fits in with the US lower accident rate but higher severity.
Study Citation:
Naji GMA, Isha ASN, Mohyaldinn ME, Leka S, Saleem MS, Rahman SMNBSA, Alzoraiki M. Impact of Safety Culture on Safety Performance; Mediating Role of Psychosocial Hazard: An Integrated Modelling Approach. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Aug 13;18(16):8568. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18168568. PMID: 34444314; PMCID: PMC8394037.
