ABSTRACT

The present study aimed to examine the impacts of security priority, security communication, and security training on safe behavior. The study assumed a causal link between safe behavior and the company’s emphasis on safety priority, safety communication, safety training, and safe behavior. In the research carried out with 349 employees of a corporate construction company in Malatya, it was also sought whether there is any relationship between the participants’ demographics and safe behavior. Accordingly, we utilized a Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis H test. We performed a multiple linear regression analysis to whether security priority, security communication, and security training variables predicted safe behavior. Findings on demographic variables suggested that the tendency to safe behavior decreased with the advancing age, while such a tendency was higher in single workers. Also, educational attainment had significant effects on safe behavior, yet it was not the case for previous accident experience. Regarding the relationships between the main variables, while safety priority had no significant impact on safe behavior (p>.05), safety training and safety communication significantly affected it (p<.05). Overall, our findings imply that open communication and relevant training on occupational health bear positive impacts on workers' safer behavior at work.