Capturing the Impact of Organizational Safety Management on Safety Outcome With a Mediating Role of Safety Commitment

Abstract

In high-risk and hazardous organizations, occupational safety is one of the key issues. This is because occupational accidents, workplace injuries, and near misses cost organization both financially and non-financially. The purpose of this chapter is to measure the impact of safety management on safety outcomes via safety commitment to capturing organizational safety in the oil and gas industry of Malaysia. However, data collection was challenging because of COVID-19 and security issues. The convenience sampling method was used to collect data from workers of the department of operation and production from the oil and gas industry of Malaysia. The investigation revealed that safety commitment plays a significant role in enhancing safety outcomes (accidents, injuries, and near misses) in the oil and gas industry. The factors on the individual and organizational levels that influence safety outcomes have been discussed with the aim of developing a safety management model. In the future, this study can be conducted on a large-scale basis to explore other safety management practices.