Impact of OHS practices on employee engagement : an applied study in five-star hotels in the city of Sana'a

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The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of occupational health and safety practices on employee engagement in the five-star hotels in the city of Sana'a.

the study depended on the descriptive approach and used the questionnaire tool that was designed according to the five-Likert scale.

the data distributed and collected from 195 employees working in in the five-star hotels in the Yemeni city of Sana'a.

the results indicate that the reality of implementing occupational health and safety practices in the fivestar hotels is medium, and the level of employee engagement is high.

also, the results show that there is a statistically significant impact of occupational health and safety practices (simultaneously) on employee engagement.

besides, the two variables (top management commitment and OHS training) among the other variables of OHS practices have been a significant impact on the employee engagement.

further, the results show that an estimated 30.4% of the variance in overall employee engagement can be accounted for by the occupational health and safety practices.

finally, suggestions may be made to the managements of five-star hotels in the city of Sana'a to pay more attention to occupational health and safety practices to maintain and protect their employees from dangers and deases that are occuring in the work place because of its importance in enhancing the employee engagement.