Shaping the Climate and Culture of Safety Through Safety Leadership in Power Plant

Abstract

Power plant is one of workplaces that has sufficient source of danger and high risk to the occurrence of work accident. One effort to control and mitigate the risks is by creating a safety climate and safety culture in the work environment.The purpose of this study is to examine and explain the effect of a safety leadership on safety climate and safety culture in coal fired power plant. The design of this study is a survey and the data will be collected through questionnaires. The population unit is all the employees who have at least 1 year working experience. Sample unit determination mechanism used in this study is a simple random sampling. The method of data analysis in hypothesis testing is Smart PLS. The results of this study indicate that direct safety leadership gives significant effect on safety climate and safety culture. The practical implications of this research is useful for the management of power plant as they need to increase the role of safety leadership in the effort of increasing the safety climate and safety culture.