Analysis of Safety Climate Factors and Safety Compliance Relationships in the Oil and Gas Industry

Jobs and industries around the globe are following the Darwinist model of needing to adapt to change for survival. A high proportion of the next generation entering colleges, technical and further education (TAFE) and universities today are preparing for jobs and tasks that do not exist yet. Recent technological advancements have meant that some industries and workforces are at risk of being left behind. With national and international safety regulations getting increasingly strict and competition tightening, the importance of maintaining a modern workplace and workforce to comply with safety procedures has never been more apparent. The oil and gas industry is one such field where safety audit, compliance and effective inspection are paramount. With considerable industry regulations, standards and checks, it is imperative that there are good systems in place. Implementing mobile technology is fast becoming the universal solution within the oil and gas industry to ensuring effective management and thorough compliance.

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IMPACT OF SAFETY CLIMATE ON JOB PERFORMANCE AND JOB SATISFACTION WITH MODERATING ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL

International Journal of New Economics and Social Sciences ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0013.3056 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 365-381

Author(s):

Muhammad Saqib Khan

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Job Performance ◽

Safety Climate ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Psychological Capital ◽

Oil And Gas Industry ◽

Research Area ◽

Gas Industry ◽

The Relationship ◽

Moderating Role

The current research investigated the effect of safety climate on job satisfaction and job performance with psychological capital as a moderator between safety climate and job satisfaction as well as job performance. This research fills the gap by collecting empirical evidence from the emerging organizations of Pakistan. Conservation of resource theory (COR) is relevant to the research area. Data were collected from 300 employees from different Organizations. The current study is empirical and quantitative-based study is used to conducted research. Data were collected by convenient non-probability sampling techniques to be used and collected from employees working in the reputed organization; Chemical, Cement, Petroleum, Oil and Gas industry of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Confirmatory Factor analysis was done through AMOS and hypotheses were tested through SPSS regression analysis process of Hayes model. To test the moderation effects, the process of Hayes model 1 was also performed. Safety climate has a positive relationship with the two DVs which are job performance and job satisfaction. Moreover, Psychological Capital played a significant moderating role between safety climate and job satisfaction as well as job performance. When Psychological capital was high, the relationship between safety climate and job performance as well as the relationship between safety climate and job satisfaction were stronger. These results are important for future studies. This research recommended top management and responsible authorities to promote safety climate activates between their organization in order to enhance their employees satisfy and high performed. Moreover, this research strongly recommends psychological capital amongst organization looking for highly satisfied and effective employees. Further implications for practice were discussed in detail.

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Psychosocial safety climate, safety compliance and safety participation: The mediating role of psychological distress

Journal of Management & Organization ◽

10.1017/jmo.2019.35 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-16 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Muhammad Zeeshan Mirza ◽

Ahmad Shahrul Nizam Isha ◽

Mumtaz Ali Memon ◽

Sundas Azeem ◽

Muhammad Zahid

Keyword(s):

Psychological Distress ◽

Safety Climate ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Strong Support ◽

Oil And Gas Industry ◽

Psychological Resources ◽

Safety Behavior ◽

Safety Compliance ◽

Safety Interventions ◽

High Level

AbstractWe conceptualize that psychosocial safety climate (PSC) has a positive effect on employees' safety behavior by reducing their psychological distress. A high-level PSC environment reduces psychological distress by eliminating the employees' need for devoting psychological resources toward safety concerns. This preserves psychological resources to be invested in important behaviors i.e., safety compliance and participation. Data were collected from 190 production workers in the oil and gas industry across three states of Malaysia. Results showed strong support for our hypotheses. PSC was negatively linked with psychological distress. Psychological distress predicted safety compliance and participation and mediated the relationship between PSC and safety compliance/participation. Results suggest that in order to improve safety compliance and participation, management in safety-sensitive industries should pay attention to psychosocial factors in the work environment. The implications of these results for safety interventions and further research are discussed.

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Safety-specific transformational leadership, safety climate and occupational accidents

Journal of Applied Structural Equation Modeling ◽

10.47263/jasem.4(2)04 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 44-52

Author(s):

Muhammad Zeeshan Mirza ◽

Ahmad Shahrul Nizam Isha

Keyword(s):

Transformational Leadership ◽

Safety Climate ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Strong Support ◽

Oil And Gas Industry ◽

Workplace Safety ◽

Occupational Accidents ◽

Climate Data ◽

Gas Industry ◽

The Relationship

Despite the fact that safety-specific transformational leadership had been reported to have favorable outcomes on workplace safety, there is limited work on identifying its role in decreasing occupational accidents at workplace. The current study looks to fill this void by proposing safety-specific leadership approach to combat occupational accidents via safety climate. Data were collected from 270 production workers of Oil and Gas Industry across four states of Malaysia. Results showed strong support for our suppositions. Safety climate mediated the relationship between safety-specific leadership and occupational accidents. The supposition linking safety-specific transformational leadership to safety climate and safety climate to occupational accidents also found considerable support. The results are discussed in the light of previous literature and the contributions made by the study.

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Safety climate of UAE petroleum industry: a cross-validation using confirmatory factor analytic approach

Journal of Engineering Design and Technology ◽

10.1108/jedt-04-2020-0138 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Mohmaed Almazrouei ◽

Khalizani Khalid ◽

Ross Davidson

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Discriminant Validity ◽

Safety Climate ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Petroleum Industry ◽

Oil And Gas Industry ◽

Screening Process ◽

Gas Industry ◽

Content Type ◽

Confirmatory Factor

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate a safety climate scale for measuring the safety climate in the oil and gas industry. Design/methodology/approach The scale developed through conducting a literature review about the safety climate and constructing a question pool. The number of items was reduced to 51 after performing a screening process. Explanatory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were performed to examine the scale’s construct validity. Findings CFA loadings were statistically significant. All Cronbach’s alpha (a) and composite reliability values support the construct reliability. The outcomes showed acceptable convergent and discriminant validity: AVEs showed acceptable values, and the square roots of AVE values showed higher values than the construct correlation values. Furthermore, all factor loadings exceeded 0.50, and the t-values were statistically significant. CFA loadings were statistically significant. Originality/value The safety climate measuring scale of 43-instrument items produced in this study is reliable and valid for the oil and gas industry.

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