The interrelation between happiness and workplace safety: A bibliometric review
Authors: Md Radzi Elias , Abd Aziz Fadzli Shah , Abdullah Khairul Hafezad 
Published: April 2024

Ensuring a safe and secure work environment promotes employee well-being and satisfaction. This bibliometric study aims to examine the correlation between happiness and workplace safety. This study uses a bibliometric approach to reveal notable research patterns and areas of inadequacy in the current literature on happiness and workplace safety. We acquired the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus datasets and analysed them using VOSviewer and ScientoPy. Since the 1990s, there has been a steady increase in the volume of literature related to happiness and workplace safety. In 2021, a notable number of publications across both databases, amounting to 61, were documented. This result indicated an upsurge in interest in this topic. The subject of “Psychology” has achieved the highest ranking, with 248 publications. The top five author keywords associated with this subject are “well-being”, “mental health”, “quality of life”, “psychological well-being”, and “depression”. The term “well-being” has garnered significant attention recently, particularly in 2022 and 2023. Bibliometric studies have revealed that happiness research has consistently and steadily gained academic attention. This article scrutinises a range of research that has investigated various facets of this interconnectedness, including the comprehension of accidents, analysis of accidents, modelling accidents, and management of workplace safety and health risks. Furthermore, this study recognises the need for future research to investigate different frameworks that elucidate the relationship between happiness and workplace safety. It also emphasises the intricacies associated with this subject matter.Ensuring a safe and secure work environment promotes employee well-being and satisfaction. This bibliometric study aims to examine the correlation between happiness and workplace safety. This study uses a bibliometric approach to reveal notable research patterns and areas of inadequacy in the current literature on happiness and workplace safety. We acquired the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus datasets and analysed them using VOSviewer and ScientoPy. Since the 1990s, there has been a steady increase in the volume of literature related to happiness and workplace safety. In 2021, a notable number of publications across both databases, amounting to 61, were documented. This result indicated an upsurge in interest in this topic. The subject of “Psychology” has achieved the highest ranking, with 248 publications. The top five author keywords associated with this subject are “well-being”, “mental health”, “quality of life”, “psychological well-being”, and “depression”. The term “well-being” has garnered significant attention recently, particularly in 2022 and 2023. Bibliometric studies have revealed that happiness research has consistently and steadily gained academic attention. This article scrutinises a range of research that has investigated various facets of this interconnectedness, including the comprehension of accidents, analysis of accidents, modelling accidents, and management of workplace safety and health risks. Furthermore, this study recognises the need for future research to investigate different frameworks that elucidate the relationship between happiness and workplace safety. It also emphasises the intricacies associated with this subject matter.