Research on the relationship between safety leadership and safety climate in coalmines
The importance of leadership for effective safety management has been the focus of research attention in industry for a few years.However,safety leadership in relation to safety climate has rarely been examined.This study has investigated the relationship between safety leadership and safety climate in the context of coal mine.Self-administered questionnaires that included a safety leadership scale and a safety climate scale were used to collect data in three coal mines in China.The number of retumed 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 findings also reveal positive associations among safety climate.The results of the statistical analysis indicated that coal mine leaders would do well to develop a strategy to change their leadership styles by which they improve the safety climates.
safety leadership safety climate coal mine structural equation modeling
DU Xuesheng SUN Wenbiao
Department of Safety Engineering,Henan Institute of Engineering,Zhengzhou 451191,China
国际会议
2012 International Symposium on Safety Science and Technology (2012安全科学与技术国际会议)
南京
英文
214-219
2012-10-23（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）