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Improving Safety Performance in SMEs Through Safety Climate, and Safety Motivation: A Conceptual Framework

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

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The millions of fatal accidents and work-related diseases occurred due to workplace accidents and injuries globally, emphasizing the importance of safety research in small and medium enterprises (SMEs), known as the accident-prone industry. Although safety research has contributed to identifying antecedents of safety performance, a limited study was conducted on why and how safety motivation to turn employee to react safely at the workplace and how safety climate factors interact to promote respectable safety performance. Using a systematic literature review based on the following themes; safety motivation, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, safety climate, safety performance, and safety behaviors. This present study investigates the usefulness of safety motivation on safety performance and identifies the most common antecedents, consequences of safety motivation, dimensions, and links to safety performance. The study’s hypothesis development was based on a proposed framework on safety motivation role in the indirect relationship between safety climate and safety performance. Finally, this study adds to the understanding of the mechanisms behind the extensive effects of safety climate on safety motivation and safety performance and help to reduces injuries and accidents and enhances occupational safety performance in small and medium enterprises.

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This study is the outcome of the collaborative efforts of a numbers of individuals and organizations, to whom we express our heartfelt gratitude. The authors would also like to thank the academics staff from the Faculty of Business, Economics, and Accounting, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, for their constructive comments, which helped improve the overall quality of this article.

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    Nor Azma Rahlin, Sidah Idris, Jaratin Lily & Kasim Md. Mansur

  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

    Roslida Addul Razak

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Rahlin, N.A., Siti Aisyah Bahkiar, A.S., Idris, S., Lily, J., Razak, R.A., Md. Mansur, K. (2022). Improving Safety Performance in SMEs Through Safety Climate, and Safety Motivation: A Conceptual Framework. 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_38

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