Background: Unsafe behaviors (UBs) are the most important cause of accidents (98 %). Therefore, identifying the cause of UBs is also significant. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of UBs among the workers of a steel company in Iran and also to identify the factors affecting these behaviors.
Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 270 people from the employees of a steel company in Iran in 2016. The present study consists of two parts. 1) investigate the prevalence of UBs of workers using safety behavior sampling method, 2) identify the factors affecting UBs using a questionnaire (demographic sections, general health questionnaire, work-family conflict questionnaire, and UK's HSE job stress questionnaire). The data from the questionnaires were analyzed by SPSS 16.
Results: The frequency of observed UBs showed that out of 1310 observed behaviors, 531 cases (40.5%) were unsafe. Also, UB among the sample group was significantly higher than the control group (P < .05). The correlation between general health, work-family conflict, job stress, and UBs showed that general health had a significant relationship with UBs (P < .05).
Conclusions: The relationship between support scale in job stress and accident showed that organizational factors such as organizational climate, safety culture, management and cooperation between people are among the factors affecting the accident and with optimal management of these factors can play a significant role in future accidents.