The influence of occupational safety and health on job satisfaction and organizational commitment of hospital nurses in Makassar city

Abstract

Occupational safety and health is a system used to prevent the possibility that will arise due to work accidents and prevention of the emergence of diseases caused by work relationships with employees in the environment. This study aims to analyze the effect of occupational safety and health on job satisfaction and organizational commitment of hospital nurses in the city of Makassar. This type of research is quantitative research using observational studies with cross sectional study design and using path analysis. Sampling using stratified random sampling so that the sample in this study were nurses in charge of Inpatient Installation, IGD, ICU and OK, amounting to 230 respondents. The results showed there was an effect of occupational safety and health variables on job satisfaction (p = 0.001), there was an effect of occupational safety and health on organizational commitment (p = 0.001), there was an effect of job satisfaction on organizational commitment (p = 0.001), and there was no the effect of occupational safety and health on organizational commitment through job satisfaction (coefficient = 0.419). It is recommended to the hospital management to encourage nurses to work in an innovative way and provide opportunities in making decisions that pose a risk to the welfare of employees by providing benefits, prioritizing comfort and safety of nurses’ work in order to increase nurse job satisfaction so that it has an impact on improving the quality and performance of the hospital.