investigating the relationship between employee safe behavior and safety culture in a livestock industry

Background: occupational incidents still account for a high percentage of causes of death and disability. a study was designed to determine the relationship between employee safe behavior and safety culture.methods: in this analytical study, all employees of an industrial livestock units of tehran participated (n = 200). the data on the employee behavior was evaluated using the safety sampling technique based on the ansi dangerous acts list (modified form). a standard questionnaire was used to assess the safety culture. data were analyzed by the spss software, at the significance level of 0.05.results: the mean safety score of people (138) was acceptable. the rate of unsafe behaviors was 35%. the most unsafe behaviors were due to improper manual handling (83%). a reverse correlation between unsafe behavior and safety culture score (p value = 0.001) was seen.conclusion: the results of this study indicate that there is a significant negative reciprocal relationship between safety culture and unsafe behavior, that is, with the increase in the safety culture, the rate of unsafe behavior decreases. as a result, by promoting the level of safety culture, the rate of unsafe behavior can be reduced.