Abstract:

To improve construction workers' safety behavior and enhance the effectiveness of both implicit and explicit safety attitudes on this behavior, this study investigated the interaction between these two types of attitudes and their combined influence on safety behavior. First, an experiment was designed to measure the implicit safety attitudes of construction workers, and Implicit Association Test(IAT) was used to evaluate underlying attitudes. Then, the relationship between implicit and explicit safety attitudes was analyzed based on an explicit safety attitude scale. Finally, the study examined how the three components of both implicit and explicit safety attitudes—cognitive, emotional, and behavioral tendency—affected safety behavior. The results show that construction workers generally exhibit positive implicit safety attitude. However, the correlation between implicit and explicit safety attitudes is weak. Explicit safety attitude, particularly the overall, emotional, and behavioral components, has a significant positive effect on safety behavior, while the correlation between implicit attitude and safety behavior remains weak. When implicit and explicit safety attitudes are aligned, their correlation with and explanatory power for safety behavior increases.

Key words: construction workers, implicit safety attitude, explicit safety attitude, safety behavior, behavioral tendency component