ABSTRACT
Safety Management is the procedure for identifying workplace hazards and reducing accidents to harmful situations and substances and to provide training of personnel in accident prevention. Safety climate is considered to describe the shared employee perceptions of the operationalization of safety management practices in the workplace at a particular time frame (Zohar, 1980, Byron and Corbridge, 1997, Cooper & Phillips, 2004). This term is related to safety culture. It is viewed as a sub-component of safety culture, its manifestation, or even by some authors as just an alternative term for it (Guldenmund, 2007). A high or positive safety climate indicates managerial commitment to a proactive safety approach. In contrast a “low” safety climate indicates that employees avoid reporting of near-miss accidents or unsafe practices for fear of punishment and that operational efficiency takes priority against safety (Chowdhury and Endress, 2010). A positive safety climate provides employees with resources like low time pressure and assistance with hazardous tasks, while it also gives a sense of control over work. Some of the main dimensions of safety climate include managerial commitment, safety systems, supervisor support, and work pressure (Christian et al, 2009, Griffin and Neal, 2000). Management policies and programs of health and safety in organizations such as safety training, provision of safety, integrated safety policies and written detailed
oil and gas industry has also been widely covered. Mearns (2009) discuss in detail the influence of national cultures in safety in the oil and gas industries. This paper attempts to shed light in this issue from a Cypriot point of view.
