Study On The Mechanism Of Foremen’s Dual Functions On Construction Workers’ Safety Behavior ——Based On The Perspective Of Situational Regulatory Focus

The safety accidents occur frequently in the construction industry and the security situation is very grim.The unsafe behavior of workers is considered to be the direct cause of the accident,so the control and research on the safe behavior of construction workers is very important.Front-line supervisors-the foremen have the most direct contact with workers.They are the front-line implementers of safety values and standards of the project who have assumed significant responsibilities in the on-cite safety management.In addition to the traditional on-site supervisory behavior of the foremen’s safety management functions,the foremen’s behavior performance is very intuitive to the workers since they participate in the operation together with workers.So the role modeling of the foremen is also worthy of attention.Construction workers are the subject of safety behavior,the motivations and tendencies of whose behaviors can be understood with the help of regulatory focus.Among them,the situational regulatory focus can be inspired by specific situations.Therefore,this research introduces the situational regulatory focus variable to explore the mechanism of foremen’s dual safety management functions i.e.,the supervisory behavior and the role modeling on construction workers’ safety behavior.Firstly,the literature analysis was used to identify factors such as supervisory behavior,role modeling and regulatory focus,and combined with which,a mediating model for the mechanism of the foremen’s dual functions on construction workers’ safety behavior is established based on the theories.Then 202 valid questionnaires are recovered to obtain the data.And the path analysis as well as the effect analysis are run by the structural equation model（SEM）.The Bootstrap procedure is used to test the mediating effect of situational regulatory focus.The main results showed that,（1）both the supervisory behavior and role modeling of the foremen positively predict construction workers’ safety behavior,of which the situational prevention focus partially mediates the positive prediction of the supervisory behavior on safety compliance,and the situational promotion focus partially mediates the positive prediction of role modeling on safety initiative;（2）compared with the supervisory behavior,the role modeling positively predicts more of the safety behavior.Finally,the discussion is based on the analysis results.The conclusion of this research emphasizes the importance of the role modeling of foremen on promoting safety behaviors,and to a certain extent,verifies the contextual applicability of social learning theory in the field of safety in construction industry,which helps provide guidance for interventions on construction workers’ safety behavior from the perspective of work groups.In addition,this research is able to enrich behavior safety research in the construction industry with the content of“dual functions—regulatory focus—safety behavior”,and explores the mechanism of organizational management factors on construction workers’ safety behavior in detail,which is helpful to provide theoretical support from the perspective of both the foremen and construction workers.Based on the above,this research believes that under the circumstances that supervisory behavior is reasonable and appropriate,the application of development strategy of the role modeling to strengthen one of foremen’s dual safety management functions i.e.,role modeling can considerably improve the construction workers’ safety performance,which deserves more attention.Meanwhile,the excitability and the influence on the way of individual’s goals pursuing make situational regulatory focus of construction workers an important breakthrough in keeping behaviors safe.Based on this,the following corresponding countermeasures and suggestions are put forward for on-site safety management practices,（1）the supervisory behavior is an important foundation—improving the safety management environment of foremen and strengthening the supportive supervisory behavior;（2）the role modeling is the key approach—the basic capacity development,publicity,audience groups,and sustainable development of foremen’s role modeling;（3）the situational regulatory focus is the breakthrough—creating specific situation,improvement the minimum level of safety performance and creating enabling environment for initiative.