Responsible Leadership and Workplace Safety in the Downstream Oil and Gas Sector in Ghana: The Role of Safety Motivation and Safety Culture

Abstract

The influence of Responsible leadership on workplace safety in the downstream oil and gas sector formed the crux of this study, employing safety motivation and safety culture as mediating agents. The study employed quota and convenience sampling techniques to draw 226 fuel service station attendants from the Government and private sectors in the Greater Accra Metropolitan City of Ghana employing a self-administered structured survey for the process of data gathering. The positivism philosophy guided the study; hence, a quantitative approach and an exploratory design shaped the process. A quantitative method was adopted for analysis using the IBM SPSS (version 26) and WarpPLS (version 7.0). Inferential statistics through Partial least Squares Structural Equation Modelling was employed to test the hypothesis of the study. The study‘s results revealed that Responsible Leadership had a positive statistical significant relationship with Workplace Safety, Safety Culture (SC), and Safety Motivation. Findings were also that, Safety Motivation (SM) did not have any positive statistical relationship with Workplace Safety; however, both Safety Motivation and Safety Culture mediated Responsible Leadership and Workplace Safety. The study advocates the need to hire responsible leaders and the need for leaders to demonstrate responsibility to maximise workplace safety in the downstream sector. The study offered a pioneer model to explain how Responsible Leadership could promote Workplace Safety.