Health and safety climate in industrial organisations: Previous studies and future directions

Pages: 987-982
B.K. Punia and Amit Kumar (Haryana School of Business, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana )

Industrial health and safety has emerged very strongly in the previous years which can be largely attributed to the phenomenal automation. From the last two decades particularly there has been a major boost in the number of studies of construction area, but the research community is scattered between many different disciplines and institutions. The literature review regarding health and safety climate in industrial organizations has been reviewed in order to identify the new area for research in manufacturing sector. The present paper attempts to explore the reasons of accidents, coworker’s safety, supervisor’s safety, employee’s compliance with safety behavior and as a whole health and safety climate and the safety management has a positive influence on performance of firm. After reviewing the various studies, the authors have endeavored directions of future researches in hazardous industries.