Effect of Awareness about Health, Safety and Environment Management System on Safety Climate and Risk Perception in Oil Refinery Employees

Aims Health, safety and environment is an integrated and convergence system and also asynergistic arrangement of human resources, facilities and equipment. This study aimed todetermine the relationship of safety climate and perception of risk with the awareness levelof HSE management system among oil refineries employees.Instrument & Methods This cross-sectional study was performed at 2016 in all KermanshahOil Refinery employees. Demographic characteristic , safety climate , perception ofrisk and awareness of the HSE management system questionnaires were used for datacollection. Data was analyzed in SPSS 22 statistical software using Pearson correlation andANOVA tests.Findings The average of total awareness of HSE was 20.85±4.82. The average of safetyclimate was 157.04±22.42. The average of perception of risk was 3.45±0.84. There was asignificant relationship between awareness of HSE management system and safety climate(r=0.219; p=0.001), but there was no significant relationship between awareness of HSEmanagement system and perception of risk (r=0.137; p=0.128). The relationship betweenperception of risk and safety climate was significant (r=0.651; p=0.001).Conclusion Oil refinery’s employees have the moderate awareness of HSE managementsystem, high perception of risk and positive safety climate. By increasing the perception ofrisk and safety climate, the safety performance of the refinery staffs increase.

کلیدواژه ها:

Health ، Environment and Public Health ، Safety ، Risk Reduction Behavior