Does safety climate mediate the relationship between institutio nal environment and employee safety behavior?

2018 International Conference on Advanced Electronic Materials, Computers and Materials Engineering

材料科学;无线电电子学;计算机科学

Lu, S.F.^1,2 ; Zhuang, Y.^1,2 ; Liu, Y.^1,2

School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan

430070, China^1

China Research Center for Emergency Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan

430070, China^2

关键词: Employee safety;    Manufacturing enterprise;    Positive impacts;    Questionnaire surveys;    Research results;    Safety behavior;    Safety climate;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/439/3/032027/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/439/3/032027

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The purpose of this paper is to explain the impact of institutional environment on employee safety behaviors, which helps to organize research on the safety climate. A set of assumptions was put forward to prove that the healthier the institutional environment is, the better the employees' safety behavior. At the same time, we assume that the dimensions of the institutional environment will affect the safety climate. In particular, other assumptions pertain to safety climate mediated the relation between institutional environment dimensions and employee safety behavior. Through a questionnaire survey of 161 employees in manufacturing enterprises, we obtained a set of factors that measure the enterprise's institutional environment and employees' safety behavior in a specific safety climate. The empirical results show that: 1) The good institutional environment has a positive impact on employees' safety behavior; 2) The healthy institutional environment significantly enhances the safety climate; 3) The relationship between institutional environment dimensions and employee safety behavior can be partially adjusted with a safety climate. The research results also encourage organizations to invest in institutional environments that support improved employee safety behavior.