Abstract

Background: To elucidate the current status of safety in the Large-scale manufacturing industry and find out the impact of various factors on worker safety in India. Methods: To identify the current status and factors that contribute to a safety culture, a survey questionnaire was developed based on the prior studies. Modified Kappa Coefficient applied to check validity and inter-rater agreement in the questionnaire. The questionnaire was randomly distributed to 320 employees of Large Scale Manufacturing Industry and the valid questionnaire was 300. SPSS software was used and diverse tests, including the Mean, Mode, Standard Deviation, Cronbach's Alpha, Correlation, Variance, Frequencies, were used for the analysis of data. Results: The result showed that there are inadequacies in many factors like Management response to Safety, Safety Training, Safety Communication, Work distribution, Workplace layout and Workplace environment problems like more noise and ergonomics problems. Conclusion: As this study revealing the current status of safety in India is not appropriate. There is a large scope of improvement. Workers and management both are not aware of safety-related problems. There is also the difference in the opinion of workers and management about work related problems.

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