¹Centre for Occupational Health, Safety and Environment (COHSE), University of Port-Harcourt, Choba, Rivers State, Nigeria.

²Institute of Petroleum engineering studies, University of Port-Harcourt, Choba, Rivers State, Nigeria.

*Corresponding Authors’ Contact Detail: E-mail Address ✉: foremanonuoha77@gmail.com

Accepted December 08, 2020

This study examined the relationships between leadership style, safety climate, safety culture and safety behaviours of workers in oil and gas servicing firms in Port Harcourt metropolis. The cross-sectional research design was used in this study. The target population are junior staff of the oil and gas servicing firms located in Port Harcourt. Purposive sampling technique was used to select eighty-one (81) companies from one hundred and two (102) companies and the Taro Yamane equation was used to generate appropriate sample size of respondents from twenty-four thousand, eight hundred and twenty (24820) junior workers. The Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMC) was used to generate inference off the relationships between leadership style, safety climate, safety culture and safety behaviours of workers in oil and gas servicing firms in Port Harcourt metropolis. The study discovered that there is poor leadership, safety culture and climate, which was found to be affecting the safety behaviours of the workers in the oil and gas servicing firms in the study area. Also, the PPMC established significant relationship between leadership style, safety climate, safety culture and safety behaviours of workers in oil and gas servicing firms at p<0.05. This also implies that leadership style=safety: climate=safety: culture=safety behaviours of workers. As a result of the finding the study recommended that leaders at the various oil and gas serving firms improve on the safety climate and culture by engaging the junior workers with understanding and entreating them by using the transformational style of leadership amongst others.

Key words: Safety-climate, Safety-culture, Safety-behaviour, Port Harcourt.

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