Abstract:
This study aimed to assess the factors affecting occupational safety and health management
practice on Ethiopian electrical utility case of Jimma branch. Organizations with positive safety
culture are likely to have employees with good safety practice. Globally peoples die as result of
occupational accidents and work related disease while they are not applying organizational
occupational health and safety practice according to WHO guidelines. The total sample size was
151 out of 472 employees. And the data were collected using a simple random sampling
technique .Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 20.Correlations and regression
analysis were applied to determine the effect and impact between variables. Safety
communication score is low This necessitates the strengthening of good means of
communication between employees and the managementthe factors associated with poor
occupational safety conditions, occupational safety practice score is low. Occupational safety
and health management practice in EEU requires advanced safety and healthy working situation,
organizational commitment score is low, training and education and preventive and control score
is low preventive and protective control measures are all that independently affect occupational
safety health management practice.The results of this study revealed Organizational commitment
the management team we suggest that improve workers commitment through managing
effectively the health and safety practices in workplace. Therefore, In order to improve employee
safety practice maintaining positive safety culture in the company is advisable.
