en Occupational and Industrial Health Occupational and Industrial Health پژوهشي Original Article <span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong>Background:</strong> Occupational incidents still account for a high percentage of causes of death and disability. A study was designed to determine the relationship between employee safe behavior and safety culture.<br> <strong>Methods: </strong>In this analytical study, all employees of an industrial livestock units of Tehran participated (n = 200). The data on the employee behavior was evaluated using the safety sampling technique based on the ANSI Dangerous Acts List (Modified Form). A standard questionnaire was used to assess the safety culture. Data were analyzed by the SPSS software, at the significance level of 0.05.<br> <strong>Results: </strong>The mean safety score of people (138) was acceptable. The rate of unsafe behaviors was 35%. The most unsafe behaviors were due to improper manual handling (83%). A reverse correlation between unsafe behavior and safety culture score (P value = 0.001) was seen.<br> <strong>Conclusion: </strong>The results of this study indicate that there is a significant negative reciprocal relationship between safety culture and unsafe behavior, that is, with the increase in the safety culture, the rate of unsafe behavior decreases. As a result, by promoting the level of safety culture, the rate of unsafe behavior can be reduced.</span></span><br> &nbsp; Safety culture, Unsafe behavior, Safety behavior sampling, Livestock industry 193 198 http://jhehp.zums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-28-8&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Shirazeh Arghami arghami@zums.ac.ir 10031947532846009462 10031947532846009462 Yes Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran. Fateme Taghizade Fatemeh taghizade@yahoo.com 10031947532846009463 10031947532846009463 No Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.