Abstract:
The importance of ensuring worker health and safety cannot be overstated; businesses
that prioritize occupational safety outperform their competitors, experience lower
employee turnover rates, and enable employees to execute their tasks more efficiently.
However, COVID-19 has compelled businesses to take prompt, decisive action to
protect employees. The objectives of this study is to investigate the impacts of
openness, mutuality, communal relationship, self-efficacy on the employee safety
behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. To achieve these objectives data was
collected from 296 fuIl time employees of different industries returning to the
workplace in the Polonnaruwa district.
The data were analy zed by using descriptive, correlation analyses and multiple
regression analysis. Based on the decision rule findings of the study, indicate that there
is a high level of openness, mutuality, communal relationship, self-efficacy and
employee safety behavior. And there is a statistically and strong positive relationship
between openness, mutuality, communal relationship, self-efficacy and employee
safety behavior. Furthermore, there is a significant impact of openness, mutuality,
communal relationship, self-efficacy on the employee safety behavior.
