A Causal Relationship Model of Safety Compliance Behaviors of Employees in Onshore Petroleum Exploration and Production Activity Supporting Company in the Lower Northern Province
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The objectives of this research aimed to investigate the validity of a causal relationship model of safety compliance behaviors of employees in the onshore petroleum exploration and production activity supporting companies in the Lower Northern Province with the empirical data. The quantitative research method was used for collecting data with 3,259 employees from the onshore petroleum exploration and production activity supporting companies in the Lower Northern Province of Thailand, and 739 of them were selected as the study sampling by using stratified random sampling method. The questionnaire was used in this study to collect data with the 5 (five) variables comprising attitude, subjective norm, motivation, safety compliance intentions, and safety compliance behaviors, which were analyzed and described by the Structural Equation Model (SEM). The results of this research indicated that the structural equation model corresponded to the empirical data (c2/df = 1.308, c2 = 18.32, df = 14, P-value = 0.205, GFI = 0.995, AGFI = 0.983, CFI = 1.000, RFI =0.995, RMSEA = 0.020, SRMR = 0.010. Furthermore, 31.7% of the variance in associated with safety compliance behavior was explained by attitude, subjective norm, motivation, and safety compliance intentions. Especially, Safety compliance intentions had the strongest direct effect on safety compliance behaviors. Overall, the study concluded that supports for the theory of planned behavior could be used to explain safety compliance behaviors of employees accordingly. Therefore, the results can be used as a guideline to improve and develop safety compliance behaviors and to reduce accidents in workplace.
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