臺灣博碩士論文加值系統

This study was conducted to explore the factors influencing the safety behavior of workers of Khang Viet Investment Construction Trading Corporation. There are 3 factors found to be positively influencing the safety behavior of worker of Khang Viet Corporation. The factors are (1) Technical safety intervention, (2) Safety rules and procedures, (3) Safety promotion policies. It is found that the factor “Safety Promotion Policies” (Standardized Beta = 0.635) have the highest influence on the Safety behavior of workers, followed by “Technical Safety Intervention” (Standardized Beta = .0391) and “Safety Rules and Procedures” (Standardized Beta = 0.222). With the findings of this study, the author proposes several suggestions to improve the safety behavior of workers in the corporation.

Acknowledgement i
Abstract ii
List of Tables v
List of Figures vi
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1.1. Background of the research 1
1.2. Research purposes 2
1.3. Research methods and research scope 2
1.4. Structure of the Research 3
Chapter 2 Literature Review 4
2.1. Previous studies on safety behavior 4
2.2. Safety management practices 5
2.3. Technical safety intervention practices 9
2.4. Human safety intervention practices 9
2.5. Safety behavior 11
Chapter 3 Research methods 13
3.1. Research design 13
3.2. Sampling design 14
3.3. Data analysis 14
3.3.1 Reliability test 14
3.3.2. Exploratory factor analysis 15
3.3.3 Regression analysis 15
Chapter 4 Results 17
4.1. Demographic information 17
4.2. Reliability test 19
4.3. Correlation test 23
4.4. Regression results. 24
Chapter 5 Conclusions 27
5.1. Conclusion 27
5.2. Contributions 28
5.3. Limitations 28
5.4. Suggestions for future studies 29
References 30
Appendix A 39

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