Safety climate impact on the safety behavior in chemical industry of Thailand

Abstract

The prime objective of the current study is to examine the link between safety climate, safety behavior, social support in the chemical industry of Thailand. Additionally, the study has also examined the mediating role of social support in the relationship between the safety climate and the safety behavior. widely known safety rules and procedures and their well enforcement by managers and supervisors may enhance the workers' safety behavior and minimize the occurrence of accidents. Summarizing, it is essential to understand the Thailand 's safety climate in medical health sector, because of the emerging need to minimize workplace injuries among foreign workers and to improve safety behavior of all the medical staff. The response rate is turned out to be 73.2 percent which is significantly higher than the threshold level of 30 percent. The SEM-PLS is used to analyses the data. The findings of the study have highlighted that Social support is considered to be a possible mediating variable, since it may serve as a potential solution for assisting foreign medical health staff to overcome medical health related challenges, such as, unfamiliar working environment and stress management.