en Studying safety attitude and relation with safety performance among the operational staff in a cement industry in 2018 تخصصي Special پژوهشي Research <strong>Introduction</strong>: Risk perception and attitudes of employees to safety is one of the requirements for the Establishment of safety culture and access to a safer working environment. If the attitude of employees in safety can be improved and completed, their safety performance also improves. So, in order to achieve to an appropriate working environment, it is necessary to measure a person&#39;s perception of safety. The current study aims to explore the relationship between attitudes and safety performance among employees of a cement industry.<br> <strong>Methodology</strong>: the present study is descriptive sectional, which was conducted among employees of a cement industry in the south of the Iran and in 2018. Information required was collected through the attitude questionnaire and safety performance, and finally 130 questionnaires were completed. The data analysis was carried out through the SPSS software version 24 and the <em>Kruskal</em>&ndash;<em>Wallis</em>tests and man Whitney and <em>Spearman</em>.<br> <strong>Results:</strong> the mean safety attitude was determined by 3.85<span dir="RTL">&plusmn;</span>0.28. According to this, there is no significant relationship between the level of safety attitude with age (P=0.32) and the degree of education (P=0.36) and Work experience (P=0.52) and accident numbers (P=0.47) and number of education (P=0.320). On the other hand, the safety attitude with safety performance showed a significant relation (P=0.278).<br> <strong>Conclusion</strong>: according to the results of the study and the significant relation between the attitude and performance of safety, it can be stated that Through planning to correct safety considerations, can take an important step in the safe operation of worker.<br> &nbsp; <strong>Background:</strong> Risk perception and employees&#39; attitudes towards safety is one of the requirements for establishing safety culture and having a safer working environment. If the attitude of employees to safety can be improved and accomplished, their safety performance will also be improved. So, to achieve an appropriate working environment, it is necessary to measure a person&#39;s perception of safety. The current study aims to explore the relationship between attitudes and safety performance among employees of the cement factory in Fars Province in Iran. <strong>Methods:</strong> The present study is sectional analytical research, which was conducted among employees of the cement factory in the south of Iran in 2018. The required information was collected through the attitude questionnaire and safety performance. Finally, 130 questionnaires were completed. The data analysis was carried out through the SPSS software version 24 by using Kruskal&ndash;Wallis tests and man Whitney tests. <strong>Results:</strong> The mean safety attitude was determined by 3.85(0.28). According to the results, there is no significant relationship between the level of safety attitude with age (<em>P</em>=0.32), the degree of education (<em>P</em>=0.36), work experience (<em>P</em>=0.52), accident numbers (<em>P</em>=0.47) and also the education (<em>P</em>=0.320). On the other hand, the safety attitude showed a significant relationship with safety performance (<em>P</em>=0<span dir="RTL">.</span>001). &nbsp;<strong>Conclusion:</strong> According to the results of the study and the significant relation between the safety attitude and performance, functional improvements in employee&#39;s safety attitudes could be achieved by planning and taking occupational health preventive measures. <div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div> Key words: safety attitude, safety performance, accidents. Safety attitude, Safety performance, Accidents 621 626 http://aoh.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-221-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Fereshteh Jahani 0000-0002-0421-1038 No MSc, Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran,Instructor,Department of Safety Engineering, Lamerd Higher Education Center, Lamerd, Iran Zeinab Mosavian Asl 0000-0003-4705-7533 No MSc, Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran Bahram Kouhnavard b-kouhnavard@razi.tums.ac.ir 0000-0002-7671-4769 No Ph.D Student of Ergonomics, Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Shoaib Shamsaddini 0000-0002-3184-6610 Yes M.Sc. in Biostatistics, Jundishapour University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran