Seth Ayim Gyekye|Simo Salminen
Educational status and organizational safety climate: Does educational attainment influence workers’ perceptions of workplace safety?
Anglia Ruskin University|Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
practical perspective understanding impact education perceptions workplace safety would benefit managements decisions regarding workers adaptability general work effectiveness accident frequency implementation safety management policies handling educationrelated accident characteristics current study thus examined relationship educational attainment safety perception ii job satisfaction iii compliance safety management policies iv accident frequency participants ghanaian industrial workers n 320 categorized four educational groups based responses basic education 50 n 159 secondary education n 98 30 vocationalprofessional education 17 n 56 university education 3 n 7 workplace safety perception assessed hayes et als 50item work safety scale wss scale effectively captures dimensions identified safety experts influence perceptions workplace safety multivariate analysis manova used test differences statistical significance posterior comparison ttest consistently revealed significant differences two highereducated cohorts lowereducated counterparts results indicated positive association education safety perception highereducated workers recorded best perceptions safety indicated highest level job satisfaction compliant safety procedures recorded lowest accident involvement rate