A study of key factors influencing enterprise safety compliance from perspective of regulation

doi:10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2018.11.022

Abstract

Abstract: For the sake of improving the safety compliance level of enterprises in China, key influencing factors were identified from a perspective of government safety compliance regulation by literature review and a model was built for the factors. Four aspects were analyzed, including the regulated objects, safety regulations, supervision methods, and regulatory bodies. The results show that the key factors influencing the compliance for regulated objects are safety culture, safety leadership, safety training, and employee personalities, that detailed safety regulations will increase the compliance burden and reduce the compliance level of enterprises, that the two regulation methods, "opposition type" and "cooperative type", will fundamentally have different impacts on organizational safety compliance, and that from the perspective of regulatory bodies, the key factors are institutional setup of regulatory bodies, capacity and quantity of regulatory personnel, and a one-dimensional regulation body and multiple stakeholder regulation bodies.

Key words: safety compliance, safety culture, regulated object, safety regulation, regulatory mean, regulatory body

CLC Number:

X924

GAO Yuan, FAN Yunxiao, WANG Jing, WANG Yifan. A study of key factors influencing enterprise safety compliance from perspective of regulation[J]. China Safety Science Journal, 2018, 28(11): 135-141.

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