Occupational Health and Safety Culture After Pandemic Conditions

Authors : Işık Çiçek, Namık Hüseyinli, Serdar Bülbül

Pages : 205-228

Doi:10.32331/sgd.1408545

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Publication Date : 2023-12-28

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Practices regarding occupational health and safety in organizations do not go beyond a legal obligation, and the perspective regarding its adoption as a corporate culture is inadequate. The COVID-19 pandemic has taken on a role that can directly affect business applications and individual safety and risk prevention workplace practices. Ongoing awareness of precautions related to individual risk perception after the pandemic can also affect the emergence of an occupational health and safety culture against risks in organizations. The aim of this study is to examine how riskpreventive practices implemented by corporate management and individuals themselves in organizations under pandemic conditions will affect the occupational health and safety culture in the future. The scope of the study is to examine this relationship in organizations in the service sector, where face-to-face communication is particularly limited and is expected to be more affected than the production sector in the pandemic term. The quantitative research method was preferred in the study, which was conducted with a sample of 245 individuals determined by the convenience sampling method. Correlation and multiple linear regression were applied to diagnose the proposed relationships among variables after examining the data collected through scales and achieving reliability and validity tests through descriptive statistical analysis. According to the research findings, the policy dimension of culture and the strategy-oriented workplace safety and employee health dimension of culture are affected by workplace safety management practices during the pandemic period. The research has originality in terms of revealing which dimensions of the occupational health and safety culture were affected by the pandemic period and workplace safety management practices after the pandemic for service-sector enterprises in Turkey. Adopting occupational health and safety practices as a dimension of organizational culture beyond a legal obligation will ensure that occupational health and safety systems are designed and implemented effectively.
Keywords : Occupational health and safety, occupational safety culture, pandemic, COVID 19, risk

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