Investigating the Relationship between Organizational Climate and Safety Climate at a Manufacturing Industry

Organizational and safety climates are respectively general and specific forms of climates within organizations, which can affect individuals performance. Organizational climate (OC) refers to the people s behavioral patterns, attitudes, and feelings within the organization. Safety climate (SC) refers to employees perception of the organizational approach toward safety policies. The current study was aimed to investigate the association between OC and SC at a tile industry. In this cross-sectional and analytical study two standard questionnaires including sussman deep and NOSACQ-50 were applied for the assessment of OC and SC, respectively. The Kolmogorov–Smirnov test was used to evaluate the normality of the quantitative data. Data were analyzed using Spearman, Mann-Whitney U, and Kruskal Wallis tests. The results of the present study showed a significant and positive association between the dimensions of OC and SC. A significant association was found between OC, working departments, and type of employment. In addition, a significant association was found between SC and working departments. It is recommended that OC as a factor affecting SC, should be taken into account in researches. Considering OC impacts on people s attitudes toward organizational safety policies, it may be defined as a factor affecting the safety performance of organizations.