SAFETY CLIMATE IN HYDRO POWER PLANT; A CASE STUDY IN ONE OF HYDRO POWER PLANT IN THAILAND

Abstract

          This cross-sectional study aimed to study currently safety climate and examining relationship between safety climate and individual factors such as gender, age, employment duration, job position, and employment nature among employees in the Hydro Power Plant. A total number of 336 employees were recruited in this research. Safety climate survey develop by Health and Safety Executive (HSE) was used as a questionnaire-based tool to measure safety climate of the organization and obtain information on individual factors that might be associated with the safety climate. The results revealed that safety climate of the Hydro Power Plant was good. The average scores of all nine safety climate dimensions were greater than five. The average score of Personal Priorities and Need for Safety was highest and accounted for 7.96 out of 10 whereas the average score of Safety Rules and Procedures was the lowest and accounted for 5.62. The results also illustrated that job position and employment nature were statistically significantly associated with those seven safety climate dimensions at confident level of 0.05 (p-value < 0.05) whereas age was statistically significantly associated with three safety climate dimensions only at confident level of 0.05 (p-value < 0.05). This research was carried out for specific period of time. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that safety climate of the organization should be re-examined where any safety contexts or improvements have been changed in order to make specific and appropriate measures to that situations.