Strengthening occupational safety and health policy in Malaysia: Exploring the awareness of civil servants; Darbuotojų saugos ir sveikatos politikos stiprinimas Malaizijoje: Valstybės tarnautojų informuotumo tyrimas
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2022
Abstract
Accident and fatality rates in the workplace are anticipated to rise constantly over the next few years. Extensive occupational safety and health studies have been conducted in various sectors, yet little attention has been paid to the public sector. This study aims to explore civil servants’ awareness on occupational safety and health (OSH). A survey was conducted in a public university to examine the relationship between OSH awareness and the civil servants’ safety understanding, self-preventive attitudes and self-care practices. The findings revealed that the majority of the respondents have a high understanding of OSH. A correlation analysis indicated that safety understanding, self-preventive attitudes and self-care practice have a positive association with OSH awareness. The highest correlation is between self-preventive attitudes and OSH awareness (r = .732, p < .05). The multiple correlation disclosed F (3,128) = 92.93, p < .000 with an R2 of .24. A significant linear relationship between safety understanding, self-preventive attitudes and self-care practices predicting the OSH awareness with the strongest correlation is between self-preventive attitudes (β = .29, p < .05). The findings suggest that public organisations focus on implementing the OSH guidelines and regulations to minimise occupational hazards at work. © 2022 Mykolas Riomeris University. All rights reserved.
Keywords
Civil servants, Occupational safety and health (OSH) awareness, Safety understanding, Self-care practices, Self-preventive attitudes
Divisions
Faculty_of_Business_and_Accountancy
Funders
Strengthening Occupational Health and Safety Management System,GPF011P-2018,Universiti Malaya
Publication Title
Public Policy and Administration
Volume
21
Issue
1
Publisher
Mykolo Romerio Universitetas
Additional Information
Cited by: 0; All Open Access, Gold Open Access