Wu Tsung-Chih
Department of Safety, Health and Environmental Engineering, HungKuang University, 34 Chung-Chie Road, Shalu, Taichung County, 43302, Taiwan.
J Safety Res. 2008;39(6):599-607. doi: 10.1016/j.jsr.2008.10.003. Epub 2008 Nov 12.
Safety has always been one of the principal goals in teaching laboratories. Laboratories cannot serve their educational purpose when accidents occur. The leadership of department heads has a major impact on laboratory safety, so this study discusses the factors affecting safety leadership in teaching laboratories.
This study uses a mail survey to explore the perceived safety leadership in electrical and electronic engineering departments at Taiwanese universities.
An exploratory factor analysis shows that there are three main components of safety leadership, as measured on a safety leadership scale: safety controlling, safety coaching, and safety caring. The descriptive statistics also reveals that among faculty, the perception of department heads' safety leadership is in general positive. A two-way MANOVA shows that there are interaction effects on safety leadership between university size and instructor age; there are also interaction effects between presence of a safety committee and faculty gender and faculty age.
It is therefore necessary to assess organizational factors when determining whether individual factors are the cause of differing perceptions among faculty members. The author also presents advice on improving safety leadership for department heads at small universities and at universities without safety committees.
安全一直是教学实验室的主要目标之一。当事故发生时，实验室就无法实现其教育目的。系主任的领导对实验室安全有重大影响，因此本研究探讨了影响教学实验室安全领导力的因素。
本研究采用邮件调查的方式，探究台湾高校电气与电子工程系的安全领导力认知情况。
探索性因素分析表明，在安全领导力量表上衡量的安全领导力有三个主要组成部分：安全控制、安全指导和安全关怀。描述性统计还显示，在教师中，对系主任安全领导力的认知总体上是积极的。双向多变量方差分析表明，大学规模与教师年龄之间对安全领导力存在交互作用；安全委员会的存在与教师性别和教师年龄之间也存在交互作用。
因此，在确定个体因素是否是教师认知差异的原因时，有必要评估组织因素。作者还为小型大学和没有安全委员会的大学的系主任提供了改善安全领导力的建议。
