標題: Linking safety knowledge to safety behaviours: a moderated mediation of supervisor and worker safety attitudes
作者: Kao, Kuo-Yang
Spitzmueller, Christiane
Cigularov, Konstantin
Thomas, Candice L.
管理科學系
Department of Management Science
關鍵字: Occupational safety;safety knowledge;safety attitude;safety behaviour
公開日期: 4-Mar-2019
摘要: The thousands of deaths and disabilities due to workplace accidents and injuries each year emphasize the importance of safety research. Despite occupational safety research that has contributed to identifying antecedents of safety, little is known about why and how safety knowledge leads to safety behaviours and how personal and situational factors interact to promote occupational safety. Using a multilevel, multisource, and time-lagged research design, the present study investigates whether safety knowledge affects safety behaviours through safety attitudes and further tests whether supervisory safety attitudes can impact the strength of these relationships and play a role as moderators of the proposed mediated relationship. Data were collected from workers (N = 177) and supervisors (N = 42) in a construction company in the energy industry at two time points. Results indicate full support for the moderated mediation model, demonstrating that worker safety attitudes partially mediate the relationship between safety knowledge and safety behaviours. Moreover, when supervisors had positive attitudes towards safety, both the direct relationship between worker safety attitudes and safety behaviours and the indirect relationship between safety knowledge and safety behaviours were more positive compared to when supervisors had negative safety attitudes. Theoretical and practical implications for occupational safety are discussed.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2019.1567492
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/148949
ISSN: 1359-432X
DOI: 10.1080/1359432X.2019.1567492
期刊: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume: 28
起始頁: 206
結束頁: 220
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