
Abstract Most accidents happened at factories shows that the manufacturing industry is one of the hazardous worksite to the workers’. Factors involved include human error, hazardous working conditions, dangerous machinery and equipment being used, and safety fault made by the management. Evidences from past investigation revealed that the workers unsafe working behaviour lead to accident in the workplace. This include failed to follow the standard operation procedures (SOP’s), implemented short cut while performing the task and didn’t wore PPE when exposed to hazards. This study investigated the relationship between safety communication and safety training on workers work behaviour. The respondents of this study were small enterprises workers in the Northern region of Peninsular Malaysia. A questionnaire-based survey was utilised using a back translated technique before administering it to the workers. The Bahasa Malaysia version was administered to the respondents as it facilitated the communication and understanding since it was assumed that the population were more comfortable in their own lingua franca. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) were used for data analysis purposes. The findings showed the significant link between safety communication and safety training on the workers work behaviour. It’s proved that an open communication about safety between management and workers; and comprehensive safety training influenced the formation of positive work behaviour among respondents. As a conclusion, this findings help the small enterprises company to understand the important of safety communication and safety training in the development of good safety environment in their company. Hence, reducing the likelihood of occupational from happen and boost the organizational safety rates. Keywords: safety communication, safety training, work behaviour, small enterprises company
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