The Importance of Training and Employees’ Involvement in Promoting a Safety Culture in Malaysian Port Industries

Safety culture is an important aspect of reducing risk and accidents, which requires a multidisciplinary approach to improve the potential for ensuring a safe work environment. The port industry has become one of the most dangerous industries in the world. Occupational safety remains an area of interest for the port industry due to the increasing number of accidents at work.

Therefore, this paper aims to propose a new framework for promoting a safety culture in the port industry in Malaysia. The authors conducted an extensive literature review to find the important variables in developing the safety culture model in the Malaysian port industry. Based on the Reciprocal Safety Culture Model and the literature review conducted, this paper proposed a safety culture framework for the port industry measured by two behavior variables: training and employees’ involvement. Further research can test these proposed variables to test the models. This model can be used and implemented by organizations in the port industry.