Application 2

The purpose of this study was to determine the descriptive statistics such as mean, standard
deviation, variance and range for the following variables: (a) number of employees, (b) hours
worked, (c) safety behavior, (d) injury rate, and (e) safety climate. Further we tried to find the
relationship between variables safety climate and injury rate using line plot and simple
regression analysis.
I measured nine variables for purposes of this study. At both sites, supervisors provided data at
each location, including the number of employees reporting to each supervisor. The gender of
supervisors was also noted. Regular observations of employee behavior were made over the 12
month period by independent trained objective observers. This represents the percentage of those
behaviors that were deemed to represent safe acts by the observer. Operations for supervisors
differed in terms of activities and risks were noted. Risks ranged from low (1) office-related
activities to high (7) manual material handling activities. Average employee perception of the
supervisors priority for safety and health over the 12 month period was also measured. Climate
was measured 4 times during the 12 month period.
The descriptive statistics for the variables under study was given in table below.
Table 1:

Descriptive Statistics

N Range M SD Variance
Number of Employees 51 40.00 24.020 7.495 56.180
Hours Worked 51 83200.00 49960.784 15590.236 243055455.373
Percentage Safe Behavior 51 .58 0.865 0.139 0.019
Injury Rate 51 76.92 15.175 17.474 305.357
Safety Climate 51 4.30 4.697 1.035 1.071

The study includes 51 locations from three cities. The average number of employees assigned to supervisor
was 24.02 (SD=7.497).The range of number of employees was 40 (see Table 1). The average number of
hours worked by employees in the area/team for the 12 month period ending was 49960.784 (SD =
15590.236) with a range of 83200.00 (see Table 2). Regular observations of employee behavior were made
over the 12 month period by independent trained objective observers. The average percentage safe
behavior for all employees was 0.865 (SD=0.139) with a range of 0.58 (see Table 1). The average injury
rate all employees at three locations was 15.175 (SD=17.474) with a range of 76.92 (see Table 1). The
mean of average employee perception of the supervisor's priority for safety and health over the 12 month
period was found to be 4.697 (SD=1.035) with a wide range of 4.30 (see Table 1).




Chart 1:
Line Chart (Injury Rate and Safety Climate)

A line chart was drawn showing the relationship between Safety climate and injury rate (see
Chart 1). The line chart (chart 1) shows no relationship between safety climate and injury rate.
The chart shows no particular pattern between the two variables.
To test the relationship between variables Safety climate and injury rate, a simple regression
analysis was used by taking injury rate as dependent variable and safety climate as
independent variable. Table 2 shows results of regression analysis.
Table2
ANOVA for the Regression Equation, Safety Climate on Injury Rate



Sum of
Squares
df
Mean
Square
F Sig.
Regression 2.450 1 2.450 .008 .930
Residual 15265.406 49 311.539

Total 15267.856 50



The regression analysis generated F = 0.008 p = 0.930 (see Table 2) indicating that safety climate,
as a predictor of injury rate, was not significant since p > 0.05. This is visibly apparent from the
line graph presented in step 11 which shows very little alignment (or correlation) between safety
climate and injury rate. In addition, this chart shows a high degree of variation suggesting
difficulty in predicting mean injury rate at any point in time.

Chart 2
Pie-chart showing Number of Hours Worked at three Locations



Chart 2 shows the distribution of total number of hours worked at three locations. The graph
shows at location Phoenix (total= 956800), the maximum number of hours worked followed by
Seattle (Total = 886080) and Boston (total=705120).