Safety compliance behaviour is an important aspect which needs a serious attention by the industrial players in Malaysia. Non-compliance with safety behaviour could lead to industrial accidents. Therefore, this research aims to investigate factors influencing safety compliance behaviour in the manufacturing sector. Factors such as safety attitude, safety knowledge, safety training, safety supervision, management support and safety rules and procedures were examined in order to find out the relationship with safety compliance behaviour. The total population of manufacturing companies in Selangor was recorded as 1,042. The respondents were taken from the study population of 1042 manufacturing firms in Selangor. The population of the study was randomly selected from Selangor manufacturing companies. In this study, supervisors from Safety and Health Department served as the unit of respondents. Respondents of the study were 281 supervisors from the manufacturing firms in Selangor. The study utilised multistage sampling technique; a technique which the researcher combined several sampling techniques such as cluster sampling, stratified sampling, and simple random sampling in order to achieve a better representation of the study population. Data were collected through self-administered questionnaire to the employees. The respondents were given a particular time to respond to the formulated questions and to return the complete questionnaire instantly once the responses were completed. This process was adopted and applied in order to prevent any data from missing. All questionnaires were successfully collected from the employees. Data were analysed by using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software Version 21.0. The multiple regression analysis revealed that the safety attitude, safety knowledge, safety supervision, safety
training, management support and safety rules and procedures were factors that positively and significantly influence safety compliance behaviour in manufacturing sector. While, the multiple regression analysis also revealed that safety knowledge had the highest impact on the safety compliance behaviour if compared to other variables (safety attitude, management support, safety training, safety supervision and safety rules and procedures). Implications and recommendations of the study were forwarded. Through the present study, there is contribution in terms of the theory, and practices for the academicians, and practitioners in an organization since individual and organization factors contribute to the safety compliance behaviour. This study provides empirical proof for the theoretical relationships put forward in the theoretical framework. All hypotheses are supported in this study. By using the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA)
as an underpinning theory, from the view of supervisors’ towards the workers’ compliance can well be determined with safety behaviour. In the meantime, by extending the original Theory of Reasoned Action; it is not only contributes in term of the theory but also contributes in terms of knowledge by extending the literature of study in the context of safety in the manufacturing sector.
