SAFETY CLIMATE PERCEPTION OF CABIN ATTENDANTS IN TURKEY: SAMPLE STUDY FOR AN AIRLINE COMPANY

Abstract

Some researches show that employees who perceive the workplace as safe encounter fewer work accidents than those who perceive the workplace as dangerous. This result also coincides with the result that there are fewer accidents in safe workplaces. Similarly, it was stated that the anxiety and stress levels of the employees who found the workplace safe were low and that they were exposed to environmental risks arising from fewer workplaces. Climate perception is a concept for how employees perceive the safety environment in the organization. In the aviation industry, where safety is a top priority, a positive perceived safety climate is of great importance. The current research aimed to investigate whether cabin attendants' perceptions of safety climate differ according to their socio-demographic characteristics. From this point of view, the analysis of the research, which used a survey technique to measure the safety climate perception of 230 cabin attendants, was made with the SPSS 26.0 program. The findings show that cabin crew's perception of safety climate does not differ according to age, gender and marital status.