Research on Influencing Factors of Employee Safety Behavior - Data from Construction Enterprises in Hebei Province, China

Abstract

This research aims to build a practical management framework to improve employees' safety behavior in construction enterprises. There were 412 employees randomly selected from 44 enterprises with AAA credit in the Hebei construction industry to conduct an online questionnaire. The results of this research are including organizational safety climate has a positive correlation with employees' safety behavior in construction enterprises; organizational safety climate has a positive correlation with employees' psychological capital in construction enterprises; employees' psychological capital has a positive correlation with their safety behavior in construction enterprises; and psychological capital plays a partial mediating role in the relationship between organizational safety climate and employees' safety behavior in construction enterprises. This research suggests that construction enterprises should create an excellent organizational safety climate to improve employees' psychological capital and promote safe behavior in production activities and improve the safety management ability of enterprise managers in engineering projects management.