The Relationship between Safety Leadership and Safety Climate in Coalmines
The importance of leadership for effective safety management has been the focus of research in industry for the past several years. However, safety leadership in relation to safety climate has rarely been examined. This paper is dedicated to investigate the relationship between safety leadership and safety climate in a context of coalmines. Self-administered questionnaires that includes a safety leadership scale and a safety climate scale were used to collect data in three coalmines in China. The number of returned valid questionnaires was 450, and the response rate was 88.2%. Exploratory factor analysis identified three dimensions of safety leadership and four dimensions of safety climate. The structural equation modeling results suggest that the active management of safety leadership positively affects safety training of safety climate, the safety motivation of safety leadership positively affects the safety commitment and the safety involvement of safety climate, and the safety monitor of safety leadership positively affects the safety awareness of safety climate. The study also reveals positive associations among safety climate. The results of the statistical analysis indicates that coalmine leaders are willing to do well to develop a strategy to change their leadership styles, through which they can improve the safety climates.
Du Xuesheng Sun Wenbiao
Department of Safety Engineering Henan Institute of Engineering Zhengzhou, China
国际会议
北京
英文
60-64
2011-09-23（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）