The Effect of Socialization on Employee's Motivation and Commitment in Implementing a Working Health and Safety Management System in North Buton District General Hospital

Background: There are recommended standards that must be implemented in the occupational health and safety management system for every hospital. However, there are still many hospitals that do not implement an occupational health and safety management system. This has an impact on the high incidence of work related accidents and the emergence of various occupational diseases in the hospital. Referring to this, it is necessary to conduct a socialization on the occupational health and safety management system in the hospital. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of socialization on employee motivation and commitment in implementing occupational health and safety management systems in hospitals.

Materials and Methods: This type of research is pre-experimental research draft ipre-post itest ione igroup idesign. The population in this study were all employees of North Buton Hospital as many as 115 people. The sample size was 89 respondents who were taken by simple random sampling. The data were obtained using a questionnaire and then analyzed descriptively and inferentially using the paired sample t-test.

Results: The results showed that there was an effect of socialization on employee motivation and commitment in implementing the occupational health and safety management system at North Buton Hospital, where the p-value < α= 0.05.

Conclusion: The socialization was able to increase employee motivation and commitment in implementing the occupational health and safety management system in North Buton Hospital. It is hoped that the management can continue to provide support so that the motivation and commitment that has grown can be developed into positive behavior towards the implementation of occupational health and safety in hospitals.