The mediating role of occupational safety culture in the relationship between institutionalization and occupational accidents in enterprises

The main purpose of this study; The aim of this study is to investigate whether occupational safety culture has a mediating role in the relationship between institutionalization and occupational accidents in enterprises, and the relations between institutionalization and occupational safety culture and occupational accidents. In addition, the demographic and workplace characteristics of the participants were compared with the institutionalization and occupational safety culture levels. The universe of the research consisted of mostly production-related manufacturing, construction and agricultural enterprises and a small number of enterprises in the service sector in Turkey. 308 companies that could be evaluated responded to the survey. In the research, the institutionalization scale consisting of "formalization, professionalization, accountability, cultural power and consistency" sub-dimensions was used. For the occupational safety culture, a total of 8 dimensions consisting of "management commitment", "safety priority", "safety communication", "safety training", "safety awareness and competence", "employee participation", "fatalism" and "reporting culture" dimensions. safety culture scale was used. Based on the collected data, firstly descriptive statistics, then Co.Alpha test and factor analyzes related to institutionalization and occupational safety culture scales used in the research were conducted. After descriptive statistics, correlation and hierarchical regression analyzes related to hypothesis tests were performed. As a result of these analyzes, it has been determined that occupational safety culture has partially a mediating role in the relationship between institutionalization and occupational accidents in enterprises. A negative and significant relationship was found between institutionalization and occupational accidents, a positive relationship between institutionalization and occupational safety culture, and a negative and significant relationship between occupational safety culture and occupational accidents. The results of the hypotheses regarding the other sub-dimensions are given in the last section. Finally, some suggestions for related institutions, businesses and those who will conduct research in the future are given along with some limitations of the study.