Safety Climate Practice in Chinese Manufacturing Industry

This study was conducted in the eastern city of China, a total of 900 questionnaires were distributed and 664 valid questionnaires were returned with a response rate of 73.8%. Safety climate of Chinese manufacturing enterprises and differences in safety climate between different size manufacturing enterprises were examined. The most striking finding in the survey was that safety climate was related with the enterprise size. The employees´ lower perceptions regarding safety climate in Chinese manufacturing enterprises and significant differences (p < 0.05) in mean safety climate scores, factor scores, and item scores between large enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) were observed. Mostly notably, among all the factors, employees´ perception of safety training was the most different between large enterprises and SMEs. Therefore, SMEs should pay more attention to safety training to target safety improvement at management level.