Safety Outcomes in Small-Size and Medium-Size Metal Enterprises in Indonesia: Are They Different?

Abstract

Safety outcomes, the performance that often used to show the workplace safety, can be measured not only by a work accident but also based on day-off and injury. This study aims to analyze safety outcomes in SMEs. A total of 67 workers in 18 SMEs: 38 workers from 15 small-scale enterprises (SEs) and 29 workers from 3 medium-scale enterprises (MEs) of metal manufacturing are involved in this study. The data were collected through self-report of safety outcomes as experienced by workers during their last 12 months of work. The results show that the safety outcomes in SEs are worse than in MEs. In addition, workers who have long work experience and family relationships with the owner shows worse safety outcomes in SEs, as compared to safety outcomes in MEs. Furthermore, it is found that in both SEs and MEs, the common cause of low safety outcomes is the contacts between the workers’ body parts and metal materials.