Track: Master Thesis Competition

Abstract

Small and medium enterprise (SME) in Malaysia take up around 97.4% of the total business establishment. However, despite the large number of the workforce is in the SME, safety related research is limited in this area in Malaysia specifically on safety culture. This study aims to assess current safety culture level of SMEs in Malaysia. Questionnaire consist of total 37 items of six safety culture constructs based on both organizational and human domain was administered to SMEs registered in government database. A total of 263 respondents from different sectors completed the survey. The survey result analysis shows that both employer and employee are proactive in implementing safety culture practices in the workplace. The lowest score identified among all the 6 factors was rewards and recognition in the workplace that can be improved in order to enhance safety culture at workplace. The grand mean score for SME is 3.76 which interpret that SME is still in proactive stage of safety culture level at workplace.