Amponsah-Tawiah Kwesi, Ntow Michael Akomeah Ofori, Mensah Justice
Department of Organizational and Human Resource Management, University of Ghana Business School, Legon-Accra, Ghana, Africa.
Department of Human Resource Management, Central Business School, Tema, Ghana, Africa.
Saf Health Work. 2016 Mar;7(1):12-7. doi: 10.1016/j.shaw.2015.08.002. Epub 2015 Aug 28.
The mining industry is considered as one of the most dangerous and hazardous industries and the need for effective and efficient occupational health and safety management is critical to safeguard workers and the industry. Despite the dangers and hazards present in the mining industry, only few studies have focused on how occupational health and safety and turnover intentions in the mines.
The study suing a cross-sectional survey design collected quantitative data from the 255 mine workers that were conveniently sampled from the Ghanaian mining industry. The data collection tools were standardized questionnaires that measured occupational health and safety management and turnover intentions. These scales were also pretested before their usage in actual data collection.
The correlation coefficient showed that a negative relationship existed between dimensions of occupational health and safety management and turnover intention; safety leadership (r = -0.33, p < 0.01); supervision (r = -0.26, p < 0.01); safety facilities and equipment (r = -0.32, p < 0.01); safety procedure (r = -0.27, p < 0.01). Among these dimensions, safety leadership and safety facility were significant predictors of turnover intention, (β = -0.28, p < 0.01) and (β = -0.24, p < 0.01) respectively. The study also found that turnover intention of employees is heavily influenced by the commitment of safety leadership in ensuring the effective formulation of policies and supervision of occupational health and safety at the workplace.
The present study demonstrates that safety leadership is crucial in the administration of occupational health and safety and reducing turnover intention in organizations.
采矿业被认为是最危险的行业之一，因此，有效且高效的职业健康与安全管理对于保护工人和该行业至关重要。尽管采矿业存在危险，但只有少数研究关注矿山的职业健康与安全以及离职意图。
该研究采用横断面调查设计，从加纳采矿业方便抽样的255名矿工中收集定量数据。数据收集工具是标准化问卷，用于测量职业健康与安全管理及离职意图。这些量表在实际数据收集之前也进行了预测试。
相关系数表明，职业健康与安全管理各维度与离职意图之间存在负相关关系；安全领导力（r = -0.33，p < 0.01）；监督（r = -0.26，p < 0.01）；安全设施与设备（r = -0.32，p < 0.01）；安全程序（r = -0.27，p < 0.01）。在这些维度中，安全领导力和安全设施是离职意图的重要预测因素，分别为（β = -0.28，p < 0.01）和（β = -0.24，p < 0.01）。该研究还发现，员工的离职意图在很大程度上受到安全领导力在确保有效制定政策和监督工作场所职业健康与安全方面的承诺的影响。
本研究表明，安全领导力在职业健康与安全管理以及降低组织离职意图方面至关重要。
