Assessment of Safety Culture Maturity Level in Production Area of a Steel Manufacturer

Safety culture is widely known to have the ability to encapsulate all factors including perception, psychology, and attitude. This ability serves as an important role for organizations in occupational safety and health. Further, this ability is used as an effort to reduce the risk of accidents. One of the efforts made is to measure the level of maturity of the safety culture in the steel manufacturer production area by involving the variables of safety culture, namely commitment, leadership, responsibility, competence, engagement & involvement, information & communication, risk, and organizational learning. This study aims to measure the level of safety culture maturity in the activities production area of steel manufacturers. Data collection was carried out by distributing questionnaires with a purposive sample of 107 workers. Two expert judgments are involved as determinants of the safety culture variable weights using the AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) method. The results showed that the level of safety culture maturity in the production area of steel manufacturer was 3, 64, which falls in the proactive category. The priority for improvement of safety culture variables starts from the leadership to the information & communication.