Does personality affect safety performance?

Purpose - The aims of this concept paper are to critically review and identify gaps in current literature on personality and safety performance, provide a definition of personality and safety performance, explore the role of personality on safety performance, come out with recommendation for future research. Design/methodology/approach - Review and synthesis of literature. Findings - All dimensions of Big Five Personality (Openness to Experiences, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism) have contributed to the safety performance. Research limitations/ implications - Personality for this concept paper refers to the Model of Big Five. Future studies should explore other personality types such as Myers Briggs Personality and Holland Personality. Practical implications - The authors recommended that organizations need to design test of personality specially for safety and health and use it during the interview session in order to select the right candidate to serve them for enhancing safety performance. Originality/ value - This concept paper offers a set of interesting lessons for organizations by providing the positive personality that must be apply by employees based on Big Five Personality model that will assist to improve safety performance