Khor Lay Kheng - School of Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia, ۱۱۸۰۰ Minden, Pulau Pinang
Lilis Surienty - School of Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia, ۱۱۸۰۰ Minden, Pulau Pinang

Experience with Occupational Safety and Health Management System (OSHMS) has shown that everyone’s participation is important for the system to act as an effective prevention mechanism towards accidents at work. Occupational accidents affected employee’s morale towards work, and become additional cost to the recovery direct or indirect cost and the rebuilding of company’s reputation. This study was carried out to determine the relationship of safety capital (management safety commitment, safety training, extrinsic reward, intrinsic reward, employee involvement and safety teamwork) towards safety participation in OSHMS through the lens of the resource-basedview(RBV) theory. A total of 100 responses were collected from Malaysian manufacturing firms certified OHSAS 18001. Data were analysed using the Smart Partial Least Square (SmartPLS). Results showed that management safety commitment, extrinsic reward, safety training and employee involvement affect safety teamwork. Furthermore,findings show that safety teamwork mediates the relationship of management safety commitment, employee involvement towards safety participation in OSHMS. In conclusion, this research has an implication for OSH practitioners and organization

Safety Participation; Safety Teamwork; OSHMS; Safety Capital; Malaysian Manufacturing