Abd Rahman, Nur Hairani and Mohd Kamil, Nurul Liyana (2022) Strengthening occupational safety and health policy in Malaysia: Exploring the awareness of civil servants; Darbuotojų saugos ir sveikatos politikos stiprinimas Malaizijoje: Valstybės tarnautojų informuotumo tyrimas. Public Policy and Administration, 21 (1). 38 – 54. ISSN 1648-2603, DOI https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.21.1.28201.
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Accident and fatality rates in the workplace are anticipated to rise constantly over the next few years. Extensive occupational safety and health studies have been conducted in various sectors, yet little attention has been paid to the public sector. This study aims to explore civil servants’ awareness on occupational safety and health (OSH). A survey was conducted in a public university to examine the relationship between OSH awareness and the civil servants’ safety understanding, self-preventive attitudes and self-care practices. The findings revealed that the majority of the respondents have a high understanding of OSH. A correlation analysis indicated that safety understanding, self-preventive attitudes and self-care practice have a positive association with OSH awareness. The highest correlation is between self-preventive attitudes and OSH awareness (r = .732, p < .05). The multiple correlation disclosed F (3,128) = 92.93, p < .000 with an R2 of .24. A significant linear relationship between safety understanding, self-preventive attitudes and self-care practices predicting the OSH awareness with the strongest correlation is between self-preventive attitudes (β = .29, p < .05). The findings suggest that public organisations focus on implementing the OSH guidelines and regulations to minimise occupational hazards at work. © 2022 Mykolas Riomeris University. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Strengthening Occupational Health and Safety Management System, GPF011P-2018, Universiti Malaya |
| Additional Information: | Cited by: 0; All Open Access, Gold Open Access |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Civil servants; Occupational safety and health (OSH) awareness; Safety understanding; Self-care practices; Self-preventive attitudes |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor T Technology > T Technology (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Business and Economics |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Nov 2023 06:27 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Nov 2023 06:27 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/43329 |
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