Impact of workers' safety participation on accidents

doi:10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2018.11.001

Abstract

Abstract: To explore the different effects of safety participation on accidents, possible relationships between safety participation, safety climate, safety knowledge, safety motivation, safety compliance and accidents were investigated. The 739 responses, coming from front line employees in two coal mines and two power plants in China, were evaluated. The results suggest that safety climate, safety knowledge, and safety motivation partially mediate the relationship between safety participation to safety compliance and safety compliance, that safety compliance affects directly accidents,and that the effect of safety participation on accidents requires the mediating effects of other variables, especially that of safety compliance.

Key words: safety participation, safety compliance, accidents, influence path, structural equation modeling(SEM)

CLC Number:

X928.03

CAO Qingren, YANG Xiaobing, CAO Ming, LI Shuang. Impact of workers' safety participation on accidents[J]. China Safety Science Journal, 2018, 28(11): 1-7.

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