Safety on the Go: An Empirical Study of Select Manufacturing Concerns to Give a Reviving Boost to the Existing Safety Practices

By : Meha Joshi

Page No: 164-174

Abstract
Health and safety of employees is a growing concern for organisations. It has been established by several researchers that employee safety is directly linked to employee productivity. In today’s era, it is emerging as one of the most important concerns for manufacturing organisations and therefore, it needs to be addressed carefully. This research paper attempts to study the perception of safety among the employees belonging to six different industries, in particular, small and medium manufacturing enterprises of Uttarakhand (India). It also aims at finding out the gap areas between actual safety practices followed in organisations and the practices documented by organisations for the purpose of record. A selfdeveloped 29 items scale was used to determine the safety perception of employees. One way Analysis of Variance was used to ascertain that whether there exists any significant difference in the perception level of employees with respect to nature of industry and type of organisation. Further one sample t-Test was used to find out the gap between actual and documented practices of safety. The research highlights various factors contributing to the safety of employees and concludes with the discrepancy existing between the actual and documented practices.

Author :
Meha Joshi : Assistant Professor, Delhi School of Management, Delhi Technological University, Rohini, Delhi.