INITIAL EXPLORATION OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AWARENESS AMONG OFFICE WORKERS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH ATTITUDES, CULTURE, AND SAFETY CLIMATE IN THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY

Abstract

Previous research found out that 46.0 percent office workers worked in a very bad condition or unsafe workplace. During the preliminary interview with some of the companies in the oil and gas industry, the manager admitted that the level of safety awareness of the office workers was low as most action was focus on the plantation site and rarely on the office workers even though there were also some minor accidents that had occurred in the office. Another study also mentioned that the level of safety awareness of the oil and gas industry in Malaysia is low, therefore, this research aim to study about safety awareness in the oil and gas industry. This research had two objectives, firstly to identify factos that lead to safety awareness and secondly to develop a conceptual framework of this research. Three factors had been identified as being relevant to safety awareness namely safety culture, safety attitude and safety climate from the literature search. For future research, this study suggested to conduct a study with a bigger sample size or qualitative data for an in-depth study.