China Safety Science Journal ›› 2025, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (3): 1-9.doi: 10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2025.03.1121

• Safety social science and safety management •     Next Articles

Mechanism of risk perception on safety cognition of construction workers in underground caverns

JIANG Xin1,2(), LI Fengbiao2,**(), PENG Jiayu2, JIAN Li2, JIN Lianghai1,2   

  1. 1 Hubei Key Laboratory of Construction and Management in Hydropower Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang Hubei 443002, China
    2 College of Hydraulic & Environmental Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang Hubei 443002, China
  • Received:2024-10-12 Revised:2024-12-21 Online:2025-03-28 Published:2025-09-28
  • Contact: LI Fengbiao

Abstract:

In order to improve the safety cognition level of underground caverns construction workers, safety requirement and safety capability were introduced as mediating variables, and occupational burnout was used as a moderating variable to construct a moderated chain mediation model. A structured questionnaire was designed using 5 scales: risk perception, safety requirement, safety capability, occupational burnout and safety cognition. A questionnaire survey and data analysis were conducted on 312 underground caverns construction workers, and SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 26.0 software were used to test the mediating effect and moderating effect.The results show that risk perception directly and positively affects the safety cognition of underground cavern construction workers, while occupational burnout plays a negative moderating role between the two. Risk perception also affects the safety cognition of construction workers through the independent mediating effect of safety requirement and safety capability, as well as through the chain mediating effect of safety requirement and safety capability. Therefore, motivating and improving the risk perception, safety requirement and safety capability of construction workers, while reducing their occupational burnout, can effectively improve their safety cognition level.

Key words: risk perception, underground caverns, construction workers, safety cognition, safety requirement, safety capability, occupational burnout

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