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Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to determine the development of a proposed conceptual framework in exploring the relationship between leadership styles (transformational leadership and transactional leadership) and safety behavior (safety compliance and safety participation) with safety motivation as a moderator.
Design/methodology/approach: The paper describes the development of proposed conceptual framework in exploring the relationship between leadership styles, safety motivation and safety behavior.
Findings/highlights: There is a positive relationship between leadership styles and safety behavior meanwhile safety motivation moderates the relationship between leadership styles and safety behavior.
Research limitations/implications: There is a need for additional research to empirically validate the proposed conceptual framework in the plant turnaround maintenance of petrochemical companies.
Practical implications: This paper could assist the management especially the leaders and employees to have better understanding on leadership styles that can enhance employees' safety behavior.
Originality: The study contributes to the asset management literature in providing an overview of the relationship between safety leadership and safety behavior with safety motivation as the moderator in new context which is plant turnaround maintenance in petrochemical industry.
Keywords: Leadership role, leaders' behavioral characteristics, employees' safety behavior, plant turnaround maintenance, petrochemicals companies, Malaysia
Paper Type: Conceptual Paper
1. Introduction
Plant turnaround maintenance is a crucial event in asset management in continuous process-based industries where the event will be done in high pressure environment. The successful execution of turnaround maintenance is relying on proper project management by the organization. According to Zulkipli and Halib (2011) it is done with the aim to revitalize, develop, sustain and improve the plant facilities for efficient and optimal operations. Turnaround is organized to perform servicing, self-inspection, replacement, regulatory inspection by Department of Safety and Health (DOSH) and maintenance on equipment or facilities which cannot be carried out when the plant is in operation (Zulkipli and Halib, 2011). Besides that, it is also stated that the main objective of plant turnaround maintenance is to renew the Certificate of Fitness (CF) of the factory, expanding or modifying of asset and restoring assets to design operation condition (Zulkipli and Halib, 2011). For that reason, as a task oriented event, plant turnaround maintenance will require a lot of manpower and other physical resources to execute the event in a temporary basis and...