Impact of Organizational Safety Climate on Productivity

Abstract

This study focused on identifying if safety climate contribute on organizational productivity, assessing the factors for safety climate that affect firm productivity, examining the relationship between organizational safety climate and productivity and to identify the challenges facing safety management system of the organization. To meet the objective, the sample of 60 respondents were used whereby, 60 respondents responded on questionnaires and 3 respondents were interviewed. The Findings showed that good safety climate leads to higher production. From regression analysis, the R square value of 0.165 and the value of F (11) implied that the model possessed significant overall strength. Also from econometrics analysis, the factors for safety climate which were behavior safety, management strategies, administration control and safety programs are all significant, according the result from ordered probit regression model shows that Probability >chi2 =0.0000 that means a model is so good hence shows fitness of the model into explained variables for safety climate participation in firm productivity through their independent variables