A Study on the Job Satisfaction of Workers in Specialized Safety Management Agency: Focus on the safety environment, job autonomy, and workplace culture

On November 30, 2022, the government also unveiled the “Serious Accidents Reduction Roadmap,” emphasizing collaboration between safety management agencies and private accident prevention agencies, and governance for a safe and healthy workplace. This study, based on Article 17, Paragraph 5 of the Industrial Safety and Health Act, involves 361 workers in workplaces with 50 to 300 regular workers who have delegated safety management tasks to safety management agencies. The study aims to improve job satisfaction by enhancing the working environment of workers performing safety management tasks through high-quality safety management technical guidance, inspection, and other services. Using the KOSS basic form of KOSHA GUIDE H-67-2022, “Guidelines for Measuring Job Stress Factors,” the research method involved surveying workers in four areas and 18 items. The study hypothesized that job environmental factors significantly influence job satisfaction, with safety environment, job autonomy, and workplace culture reconstructed as independent variables and job satisfaction as the dependent variable. The results showed that job environmental factors explained 46.1% of job satisfaction (R² = 0.461). The regression model was appropriate at F = 101.788 ( =0.001). The impact of job environmental factors on job satisfaction revealed significant positive effects for safety environment (β = 0.126, p < 0.01), job autonomy (β = 0.332, p < 0.001), and workplace culture (β = 0.381, p < 0.001). The relative impact indicated that workplace culture, job autonomy, and safety environment ranked in descending order. The study concluded that improving job environmental factors in safety management entrusted workplaces through specialized technical guidance and inspections positively impacts job satisfaction. Urgent attention from individuals, institutions, and the government is necessary, alongside institutional improvements, to prevent and reduce industrial accidents in safety management entrusted workplaces.