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A Review on the Importance of Safety Leadership Role on Safety Climate and Safety Performance in High Risk Industry

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Financial Technology (FinTech), Entrepreneurship, and Business Development (ICBT 2021)

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Workplace safety becomes a concern for most countries globally, particularly in a high-risk industry like a manufacturing organization. Thus, such organizations call for different safety leadership in the context of the organization. Therefore, this study aims to design a safety leadership to describe and provide empirical support of the relationship between safety leadership, safety climate, and safety performance in the small manufacturing enterprise setting. The paper is centered on the literature review through a rigorous, in-depth analysis; based on the following themes safety leadership, Transformational Leadership, Transactional Leadership, safety climate, safety performance, and safety behaviors. The study's discussions were based on a proposed framework on Leadership's role in safety climate and safety performance. Finally, this paper concludes that small manufacturing enterprises need high-quality safety leadership that influences employees to increase safety performance, which can be a role model and exhibit profound safety concerns.

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  1. Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), 88400, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

    Nor Azma Rahlin, Sidah Idris & Jaratin Lily

  2. Indah Water Konsortium Ltd., No. 44, Jalan Dungun, Damansara Heights, 50490, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Ayu Suriawaty Siti Aisyah Bahkiar

  3. Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA), 21300, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia

    Zainudin Awang & Roslida Addul Razak

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Rahlin, N.A., Bahkiar, A.S.S.A., Awang, Z., Idris, S., Lily, J., Razak, R.A. (2022). A Review on the Importance of Safety Leadership Role on Safety Climate and Safety Performance in High Risk Industry. In: Alareeni, B., Hamdan, A. (eds) Financial Technology (FinTech), Entrepreneurship, and Business Development. ICBT 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 486. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08087-6_12

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