Relationships among safety climate, safety management and safety performance

Relationships are ambiguous among safety climate, safety management and safety performance, thus some indictors are extracted and assessment methods (interview, questionnaire, field inspection, etc) are designed to explore the relationships. First of all, data are collected getting each indictor scores and fatalities from different types of 10 coal mines (4 state-owned enterprises, 4 state-owned local ones, and 2 privately-owned ones). To evaluate enterprises' safety climate and safety management situation, then 10 experts (different fields) spend 2 weeks and choose 200 samples who are from managers, group leaders, professional workers, and field workers. The last, using SPSS17.0 processes the data by running significance analysis. Results show that safety climates differ significantly among different types of enterprises, and the safety climate scores from state-owned enterprises are better than the other two types; there are not remarkable relationships between safety climate and safety performance, but exists the higher the safety climate score, the better the safety performance for 1#, 6# and 10#; safety climate have obvious associations with organizational management situation; relationships should have been significant between safety management and enterprises' performance, the possible reason is that management situations are also influenced by other internal indicators. The above conclusions indicate that exploring organizational safety climate and management situation could reduce accident rates, and finally promote the safety performance.