Journal of Preventive Medicine

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Zare M, Aghamolaei T, Dadipoor S, Safari Moradabadi A, Hosaini F A. Relationship between safety culture and job satisfaction in employees of Shahid Rajaee port. J Prevent Med 2017; 4 (1) :1-9
URL: http://jpm.hums.ac.ir/article-1-223-en.html

Introduction: Poor safety culture accounts for the majority of occupational accidents which occur as a result of unsafe behaviors. However, establishing safety culture without job satisfaction is doomed to fail. The present research aimed to investigate the relationship between safety Culture and job Satisfaction in employees of a company in Bandar Abbas Shahid Rajaee port.
 Methods: The present descriptive-analytical study was conducted in 2016 on 126 workers of a company in Shahid Rajaee Port who were enrolled into the study through the census method. The data collection instruments were valid and reliable safety culture and job satisfaction questionnaires. Data were analyzed using SPSS software and Pearson correlation coefficient test.
Results: The mean age of the participants was 37.58 years. Results show that there is a statistically significant correlation between safety culture and job satisfaction (r=0.424, P-value˂0.001). Among the safety culture dimensions, teaching and learning (r=0.419, P-value˂0.001) and responsibility (r=0.410, P-value˂0.001) had the highest correlations with the job satisfaction. The results also showed that the job nature had the highest correlation with safety culture (r=0.636, P-value˂.001).
Conclusion: Managers active and effective participation in creating job motivation, consistent and supportive supervision, creating job promotion opportunities, fair payment rise, and emphasis on the staff’s feeling of responsibility, and holding educational classes will promote job satisfaction and safety performance and behaviors.