Investigating Employee Perceptions of Workplace Safety and Safety Compliance Using PLS-Sem Among Technical Employees in Malaysia (original) (raw)

2017, Journal of Applied Structural Equation Modeling

Safety is an important employment issue that needs to be tackled because of the cost implications it brings to organizations. As Malaysia aspires to become a developed nation by 2020, reducing workplace accidents is one of the key employment concerns it aims to address.Literature indicates that one of the reasons for occupational accidents at work is unsafe behavior. Adding to the safety research literature, this study examined to what extent perceptions of safety affect employees to comply with safety behavior at work. A survey was conducted in a big telecommunication company in Malaysia among 135 technical employees.Partial least square (PLS) analysis was employed in this study to test the research hypothesis.Our measurement model resulted in five facets of employee perception whose validity and reliability were confirmed. The analysis on the structural model revealed that management safety practices was the most significant predictor of safety compliance, followed by, co-worker s...

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