Effect of safety management on perceived safety performance at public hospital in Perak

Safety management is designed to managed the occupational safety at workplace and it has a crucial role for accident prevention program at workplace. It also influenced employee motivation and their concern towards the safety performance directly and indirectly. This study is to review relationship between safety management and safety performance. The survey applied the self-administrative questionnaires involved 215 Assistant Medical Officer and nursing sister at grade U32 or higher who are worked at public hospital in Ipoh Perak. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (IBM SPSS Statistics 23.0) were used for analyzing the raw data whereas descriptive and inferential analysis was conducted to fulfill the objective of study. Correlation analysis show the strong relationship between safety management as the independent variable was significant towards dependent variable, safety performance at .001 level (r = .272 and p= .000; p<0.01). Furthermore, regression analysis shown there were three dimensions of safety management were significantly related to safety performance which are safety concern, safety policy and safety motivation.