Study on factors influencing competency of safety manager in SMEs

doi:10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2017.06.028

Abstract

Abstract: In order to study the factors influence competency of safety managers in SMEs, 201 safety managers from SMEs in Yangtze River Delta Region were chosen to complete questionnaires. The method of SEM was used to study effects of career feature, working climate and personality on the competency of safety managers, and intermediary effects of both the knowledge and the skill. Results show that working climate and personality have a positive influence on the safety manager competency,that the influence of working climate is greater with route coefficient 0.43,and that personality directly affects safety manager competency and working climate indirectly affects safety manager competency in a positive way.

Key words: small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), safety manager, competency, influence factors, structural equation model (SEM)

CLC Number:

X922

MEI Qiang, WANG Yanling, LIU Suxia. Study on factors influencing competency of safety manager in SMEs[J]. China Safety Science Journal, 2017, 27(6): 163-168.

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