Research On The Mechanism Of Unsafe Behavioral Intention On Fire Near Miss In Coal Mine

Indication can appear prior to any accident. Above all, it is a front rank approach to achieve the objective of Prevention Beforehand by laying emphasis on recognizing,administrating and researching the portent before accidents and understanding the action mechanism of Near Miss. It’s in line with the new developing trends of safety management.This thesis studied the action mechanism of employees’ unsafe behavioral intention on Near Miss of coal mine fire via literature review and empirical analysis. The Theory of Accident Causation, Multi-level Theory and Planned Behavior Theory were used. By analyzing the influencing factors, clarifying the action mechanism and proposing countermeasures of coal mine fire Near Miss, the dissertation offered theoretical foundation to guard against coal mine fire accidents. The main research contents and conclusion are as follows:Firstly, 75 coal mine fire accidents from 2002 to 2013 had been studied and the causes of fire accidents from the factors of people, Machines, Environment and Management were analyzed. 44 mine fire cases were analyzed by using the method of gray correlation analysis.The results of the grey correlative degree of four factors(people, machines, environment and management) are obtained. Which comes to a conclusion that People is the main factor resulting in coal mine fire accident.Secondly, 50 kinds in 7 types of employee’s unsafe behaviors causing ignition were found out according to the main three factors lead to fire, laying the foundation for the establishment of unsafe behavioral intention scale. Influence factors of employee’s unsafe behavioral intention were studied by empirical analysis.Research showed that: the influence factors of employee’s unsafe behavioral intention include safety attitude, subjective norms,perceived behavior control. Safety attitude includes risk perception and convenient perception;subjective norms includes pressure from regulators and co-workers; perceived behavioral control includes self-efficacy and working conditions. Significantly, the safety attitude and employee’s unsafe behavioral intention present positive correlation through the analysis andthe correlation coefficient is 0.91; significant positive correlation is also presented between subjective norm and employee’s unsafe behavioral intention, the correlation coefficient is 0.77;perceived behavioral control and employee’s unsafe behavior appear significantly positive correlation too, the correlation coefficient is 0.73.Thirdly, based on Accident-Causing Theory, Multi-level Theory and Planned Behavior Theory, the model of effect mechanism for the coal mine fire near miss was preliminarily constructed and the hypothesis were put forward.the mediator effectof effect mechanism model for the coal mine fire near miss was tested by empirical analysis. Research showed that:employee’s unsafe behavioral intention influences employee’s unsafe behavior and then influences near miss, employee’s unsafe behavior is the complete mediator between employee’s unsafe behavioral intention and the coal mine fire near miss. The employee’s unsafe behavior is divided into manager’s unsafe behavior and employee’s unsafe behavior.The manager’s unsafe behavior includes security policy setting and implementation, security climate, safety supervision to individual employee’s behavior and safety surveillance.Employee’s unsafe behavior includes safety participation and safety obedience.Finally, the team safety climate as a group variable was verified through HLM7.0multi-level analysis software, which proved its adjustment between unsafe behavior of employees and fire near miss of coal mine. Research shows that: the safety climate of team plays a regulatory role in the relationship between employee’s unsafety behavior and the coal mine fire near miss. Where there is a well team safety climate, there is a weak relationship between employee’s unsafe behavior and the coal mine near miss events which means the possibility of coal mine fire events caused by employee’s unsafe behavior will reduce. The team safety climate includes communication, safety knowledge training, safety motivation,safety supervision. Through multi-level analysis, safety knowledge training and safety motivation play a regulatory role in the relationship between manager’s unsafe behavior and the coal mine fire near miss. Communication, safety knowledge training, safety motivation and safety supervision play a regulatory role in the relationship between employee’s unsafe behavior and the coal mine fire near miss.The above research results enrich and extend the study on action mechanism of coal mine near miss, clarify the relationship between the factors including employee’s unsafe behavioral intention, employee’s unsafe behavior, team safety climate and the coal mine fire near miss. Besides, the results provide a clear direction for the prevention of mine fire accident and control of the near miss, which is conducive to enhance the management level of coal mine safety.