Huge amount of pain and suffering is experienced by people who simply go to work to earn a living When health and safety is not managed properly people get killed and injured in gruesome ways or suffer terrible that have a massive impact not only on them, but also their dependents, families, friends and colleagues. Society as a whole considers these events to be morally unacceptable, and injury or ill-health should not be a price that has to be paid in order for the worker to feed their family.

Of critical importance to health and safety management is individual worker behaviour. One worker may behave in an ideal manner, but other may not, and this unsafe behaviour may endanger themselves and others.

Human factors have a part to play in effective health and safety management. This doctorate research aimed to improve safety culture within an organization by improving worker behaviours relating to health and safety and to have good performance whilst having less or 0 accidents.

Human behaviour is a major contributor of all industrial accidents revealed by many occupational safeties literatures. The presence of good safety behaviour does reflect good safety compliance. Safety issue cannot be tackle effectively without interference of employers with a particular pattern of behaviours as important criteria needed to change employee’s behaviours. Thus, the primary objective of this study is to identify employers’ behavioural safety compliance factors contribute to encourage employees’ towards behavioural safety compliance.

The energy industry in Morocco is one most contributor to create wealth for the country’s economic growth. Improving safety remains a priority in every country around the world because it is one main contributor which ranks high in the rates of severe and fatal occupational injuries compare to other industries. The major occupational accidents and disease contributor which is human behaviour will obstruct attempt to achieve Morocco vision 2020. So, the employer needs to adapt more holistic tactics and approaches which focus not only improving physical working environment but also on shaping employee’s behaviours, attitudes and beliefs which lead to safety behaviour and ultimately safety compliance.

The occupational, safety and health Act (OSHA), 1994 are identified as an approach providing legislative framework to enforce human behaviour towards safety compliance by practicing high standards of safety and health at work to eliminate workplace accidents. However, ignorant behaviour and attitude from the employers and employees contribute to rise of issue on behavioural safety noncompliance (Jamal Khan, 2006) to OSH requirements such as Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) 1994.

Key Words : Safety behaviour, employee’s behaviours, attitudes and beliefs, Human factors, effective health and safety management, safety compliance.

MOHAMED YOUNES BOUTI

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Employees' Behavioral Safety Compliance Factors toward Occupational, Safety and Health Improvement in the Energy sector