Safety Culture and the Performance of Water Manufacturing Companies in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

An enquiry into the effect of safety culture on organisational performance is still a thematic area of study in management, health and engineering literature. Hence, this study was carried out to examine the effect of safety culture on organisational performance of water manufacturing companies in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The objective of the study was to investigate the effect of safety training and safety compliance on organisational performance of water manufacturing companies in the State.Deploying survey research design, data were obtained through a structured questionnaire administered to a sample of 284 respondents drawn from a population of 975 employees. The population comprises 75 companies selected from 495 water manufacturing companies operating in Akwa Ibom State. The data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Both simple linear and multiple regression models were adopted for testing the hypotheses. The findings revealed that safety training had statistically significant positive effect on the performance of water manufacturing companies (p-value <0.001) and also safety compliance showed a statistically significant effect on the performance of these organisations (p-value <0.001). It was concluded that there is significant positive effect of safety culture on organisational performance of water manufacturing companies in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Therefore, it was recommended that managers of water companies should enhance safety training and enforce compliance of safety policies to increase their organisational performance.