Impact of Occupational Health and Safety Management on Organizational Performance: An Evidence from Pharmaceutical Industry of Karachi

Abstract

This is a quantitative study which aims at exploring the impact of occupational Health and safety management (OHSM) on the performance of organization. For conducting this study, survey method was administered that involved 40 pharmaceutical companies of Karachi. These companies were taken as SMEs as they constituted of medium and small sizes based on their level of operations. An appropriate sample was taken which was analyzed using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social sciences). The use of simple regression was employed to see the impact of OHSM on organizational performance (OP). A positive relation was found between OHSM and OP using Pearson correlation analysis and the Cronbach’s alpha was found to be 0.95 which expresses an excellent internal consistency. The results in this study depict that OHSM strongly impacts the organizational performance (OP) and there was less emphasis all implementing occupational Health and Safety by entrepreneurs.