Ergonomic behavioral and workers’ safety perception in Khuzestan Petrochemical Company

Objectives: an effective safety management requires paying attention to human factors. one of themost important methods for achievement to accident prevention is using safety climate or safetyculture. moreover, some studies suggest that in most organizations behavior contributes to 86-96%of all injuries. this cross-sectional study was performed on the functional units’ workers ofkhuzestan petrochemical company, in 2010.methods: data collection tools were safety climate questionnaire that has been presented by kumaret al. (2009), ergonomic behavior sampling and collected data was analyzed by spss 16.results: with reference to the results of a pilot study, a sample of 1147 was determined forbehavior sampling. the numbers of returned valid questionnaires were 134 out of 151 and responserate was %88.74. questionnaire reliability assessed by cronbach’s alpha, was 0.928. resultsindicated, management commitment and actions for safety, workers’ knowledge and compliance tosafety, and workers’ attitudes towards safety, are those safety climate factors which have obtainedthe highest correlation coefficient with ergonomic behaviors and as predictors on multi-variantslinear regression model for ergonomic behavior forecasting.discussion: results showed the importance of decreasing number of workers with negative safetyclimate. also, results obligate paying attention to workers’ ergonomic behaviors in the workplaceand their promotion.