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.
