ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT The intent of this study in particular was to assess the safety climate of the workplace in South Korea at national level and how occupational injury rate was affected as consequence. A study conducted in 2005 by Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute (OSHRI) to evaluate the National Survey for Occupational Safety and Health Tendency (NSOSHT) reported 595 cases of workplace injury. As a tool of assess the safety climate, data were categorized into safety attitude, commitment to safety, safety policy, and safety administration and also looked at how safety climate, health and safety committee, and health and safety code affected the rate of occupational injury. When adjusted model was applied, occupational injury showed strong relationship to the number of employees, followed by health and safety code, and safety attitude. From these findings, it is essential to establish health and safety codes in work places that do not currently have it in place or appears to be inadequate standards, strengthen health and safety education, actively
engage in health and safety administration, promote employee participation, enact health and safety regulations to enforce all workplaces would effective aid in decrease the rate of occupational injury in South Korea.
