A Study On The Structure Of Safety Climate And Its Fuctional Mechanism

As the development of modern society, safety of manufacturing has become the key factor of the improvement of a factory, an area even a country. A lot of companies have realized the importance of the safety and healthy of their employees. These companies have used almost all the technical methods to improve safety but there is very little that technique can do. So many researchers turn to study some none-technical method, such as organizational factors. Safety climate is one of the factors that has influence on safety behavior and performance, which means the shared perception of matters relating to safety between employees.Now researchers from China also start to do some searches on safety climate (CS), but the lack of tool to measure SC slowed their steps. So this research tries to develop a tool to measure it and test the determinants and consequences.This research develops a 21-item tool to test SC and a 10-item tool to test safety performance. By delivering these questionnaires to 299 employees from 12 companies and doing statistics analysis, we get the conclusions as follows:(1) SC is composed of four factors——perception of safety importance,perception of safety environment, safety trust and safety controllability.(2) Safety performance is composed of personal safety performance andorganazitional safety performance.(3) Safety commitment, supervisor monitoring and management participation have significant correlation with SC and safety performance.(4) Safety controllability, perception of safety importance, perception of safety environment and safety trust have significant influence on safety performance.(5) SC plays a role of mediate between safety management and safety performance. (6) There is a significant difference between the safety performance of a high-SC company and a low-SC company.