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  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,189 Views
24 Pages

29 August 2023

The safety citizenship behavior (SCB) of construction workers can improve project safety performance. This study explored how construction company owners’ safety management behavior contributes to the development and encouragement of SCB. It co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
21,160 Views
13 Pages

18 May 2021

The construction industry is known for its disappointing safety performance. Therefore, rethinking current safety management frameworks is crucial. This study assesses a newly proposed construction safety culture and climate framework that aims to ov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
6,647 Views
21 Pages

Impact of Safety Attitude on the Safety Behavior of Coal Miners in China

  • Yuanlong Li,
  • Xiang Wu,
  • Xiaowei Luo,
  • Jingqi Gao and
  • Wenwen Yin

13 November 2019

Most coal mine accidents are attributed to the unsafe behavior of miners. Adjusting the safety attitude and thus improving miners’ safety behavior is important for accident prevention. However, the relationship between safety attitude and safet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,819 Views
27 Pages

17 November 2024

In an industry where safety is paramount yet frequently compromised, the transformative impact of safety leadership on workers’ safety behavior illuminates a path to reducing construction hazards and fostering a culture of proactive safety prac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,546 Views
21 Pages

15 October 2024

The construction industry faces significant challenges in ensuring worker safety, encompassing both physical hazards and mental health concerns. Drawing on Social Exchange Theory (SET), this study explores the impact of perceived leadership support (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
134 Citations
13,606 Views
16 Pages

Relationships among Safety Climate, Safety Behavior, and Safety Outcomes for Ethnic Minority Construction Workers

  • Sainan Lyu,
  • Carol K. H. Hon,
  • Albert P. C. Chan,
  • Francis K. W. Wong and
  • Arshad Ali Javed

In many countries, it is common practice to attract and employ ethnic minority (EM) or migrant workers in the construction industry. This primarily occurs in order to alleviate the labor shortage caused by an aging workforce with a lack of new entran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,976 Views
20 Pages

13 July 2023

Safety climate and safety behavior have been proven to be critical for construction safety. However, few studies have systematically tested the influences of demographic characteristics on construction worker safety, especially in the background of C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,254 Views
13 Pages

Research recognizes the shared perceptions of the priority attributed to safety in comparison to other organizational goals (i.e., safety climate) as a potential antecedent of safety behavior among construction workers. This type of climate can disma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,106 Views
23 Pages

Exploring the Effects of Safety Climate on Worker’s Safety Behavior in Subway Operation

  • Yongliang Deng,
  • Haolun Guo,
  • Miaomiao Meng,
  • Ying Zhang and
  • Shuangshuang Pei

9 October 2020

The safety climate is becoming more and more important in the processes of subway operation safety management due to various accidents. The research objective of this study is to explore the effects of safety climate and personal factors on safety be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,927 Views
19 Pages

In recent years, the safety issue of construction workers has become a research hotspot, and many researchers have achieved results in the impact of safety behavior regarding China’s construction industry. However, the existing research about t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,024 Views
14 Pages

25 November 2024

This study aimed to identify the relationship between the safety leadership of safety and health managers, the safety climate of the organization, and the safety behavior of workers in the electronics industry in order to develop a sustainable indust...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,641 Views
23 Pages

Resilience can improve the adaptability of coal miners to high-hazard and high-stress environments. After facing setbacks or adversities, resilience can enable coal miners to recover from bad mental states and have an optimistic safety attitude and p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
144 Citations
15,594 Views
17 Pages

The Impact of Transformational Leadership on Safety Climate and Individual Safety Behavior on Construction Sites

  • Yuzhong Shen,
  • Chuanjing Ju,
  • Tas Yong Koh,
  • Steve Rowlinson and
  • Adrian J. Bridge

Unsafe acts contribute dominantly to construction accidents, and increasing safety behavior is essential to reduce accidents. Previous research conceptualized safety behavior as an interaction between proximal individual differences (safety knowledge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
311 Views
15 Pages

29 January 2026

Despite ongoing improvements in safety regulations and management practices, the construction industry continues to experience high rates of occupational accidents, highlighting the need for more effective preventive safety management. Although risk...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
6,131 Views
17 Pages

The daily operation and maintenance work of railways are very dangerous. Railway employees often have safety accidents while working, and the safety citizenship behavior (SCB) of railway employees can effectively reduce the accident rate. Therefore,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,891 Views
25 Pages

8 February 2025

The importance of safety behavior (SB) for workplace safety, especially in high-risk industries such as the construction sector, cannot be overstated. However, there exists limited research that has examined how the psychosocial safety climate (PSC)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,799 Views
14 Pages

22 September 2023

Students’ unsafe behavior is the main factor related to accidents in university laboratories. The safety climate is an important factor that affects individual safety behavior on the organizational level. Therefore, to improve the effect of uni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,343 Views
18 Pages

18 April 2023

Research on the correlation between personality traits and safety behaviors has been thoroughly explored in previous literature. However, most of these studies are based on explaining the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and safet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
6,342 Views
19 Pages

Older construction workers are vulnerable to accident risks at work. Work behavior affects the occurrence of accidents at construction sites. This study aims to investigate the organizational and personal factors that underlie the safety behaviors of...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3,015 Views
9 Pages

The nudge theory has been applied to improve safety behavior in various industries. We implemented the nudge theory in the construction industry to improve worker safety. Nudges for construction safety were grouped into three categories and used in a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
912 Views
22 Pages

Enhancing Sustainable Construction Safety: A Self-Determination Theory Approach to Worker Safety Behavior

  • Su Yang,
  • Yuru Yang,
  • Wenbao Yao,
  • Ting Wang,
  • Long Zhu,
  • Hongyang Li and
  • Chunming Yang

26 November 2025

The construction industry has long been recognized as one of the world’s most hazardous sectors, with safety issues remaining a persistent challenge. To enhance sustainable safety management in this field, this study employs Self-Determination...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,636 Views
12 Pages

Stepwise Interactive Situated Training Program for Young Nurses’ Safety Behavior and Interrupted Coping Behavior

  • Jin Yan,
  • Lijun Li,
  • Jie Li,
  • Sha Wang,
  • Xiaoqi Wu,
  • Panpan Xiao,
  • Zhuqing Zhong,
  • Siqing Ding,
  • Jianfei Xie and
  • Andy S. K. Cheng

Young nurses’ safety behavior and interrupted coping behavior affect patient safety. A stepped, interactive and situated training program should be evaluated to assist young nurses in improving themselves. This study aimed to evaluate the effec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,640 Views
14 Pages

Although some previous studies have examined the impact of transformational leadership on safety behavior, those works have paid relatively less attention to the intermediating role of employees’ job strain in the link as well as contingent var...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,522 Views
16 Pages

3 August 2022

Although numerous studies have confirmed the important influence of values on employees’ behavior, less is known about the relationship between work values and miners’ safe behavior. Based on self-verification theory and trait activation theory, this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,094 Views
21 Pages

Exploring the Relationship between Safety Climate and Worker Safety Behavior on Building Construction Sites in Taiwan

  • Wei Tong Chen,
  • Hew Cameron Merrett,
  • Ying-Hua Huang,
  • Theresia Avila Bria and
  • Ying-Hsiu Lin

17 March 2021

Construction occupational accidents are often attributed to workers’ having an insufficient perception of how their actions influence safety in the construction site. This research explores the relationship between safety climate (SC) and personnel s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,571 Views
24 Pages

15 September 2025

Leaders play a crucial role in shaping employees’ safety behaviors (SBs). However, research on broader leadership styles has yielded inconsistent findings, emphasizing the need for a more tailored leadership approach, especially in high-risk in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,438 Views
21 Pages

Investigating the Effects of Personality on the Safety Behavior of Gold Mine Workers: A Moderated Mediation Approach

  • Li Yang,
  • Sumaiya Bashiru Danwana,
  • Fadilul-lah Yassaanah Issahaku,
  • Sundas Matloob and
  • Junqi Zhu

Based on prior research on the relationship between personality and safety behavior, we construct a moderated mediation model that tests the effects of each of the Big Five personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
367 Views
23 Pages

Background as Predictors of Food Safety Behavior in Peruvian University Students: The Mediating Role of Food Safety Attitudes

  • Jairo I. González-Linares,
  • Hypatia Ynfante-Acuña,
  • Saúl Vara-Allhuirca,
  • David Quispe-Sanca and
  • Wilter C. Morales-García

13 February 2026

Background: Foodborne diseases (FBDs) pose a significant threat to public health and are particularly relevant among university students, who often face limitations in time, resources, and experience in food handling. This study examined the influenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,184 Views
19 Pages

Development and Validation of the Safety Behavior Assessment Form-PTSD Scale

  • Jason T. Goodson,
  • Madison E. Fraizer,
  • Gerald J. Haeffel,
  • Jacek Brewczynski,
  • Lucas Baker,
  • Caleb Woolston,
  • Anu Asnaani and
  • Erika M. Roberge

12 September 2025

Safety behaviors are mental processes and behaviors associated with the onset, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety-related disorders. But these behaviors are understudied in the context of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). One reason is the lac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,615 Views
21 Pages

26 November 2024

Amid an aging workforce and labor shortages, this study investigates the key factors influencing construction workers’ safety compliance behavior (SCB). SCB is categorized into three distinct types: non-compliance behavior, general behavior, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,265 Views
18 Pages

This research investigates how age expectation (AE) influences construction worker safety behavior (CWSB) by utilizing self-validation theory (SVT). Using structural equation modeling (SEM) and data from 391 Chinese construction workers, we found tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
7,831 Views
15 Pages

4 June 2019

Driver behavior has been considered as the most influential factor in reducing fatal road accidents and the resulting injuries. Thus, it is important to focus on the significance of driver behavior criteria to solve road safety issues for a sustainab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,461 Views
18 Pages

In this study, a behavioral influence model based on cognitive theory was developed to investigate foremen’s influences on construction workers’ safety behavior. In the model, three foreman behaviors were considered, such as leading by ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,209 Views
18 Pages

11 July 2022

Safety leadership, safe behavior, and safety climate, which are important parts of occupational safety culture, are important in terms of preventing occupational accidents and making the working environment ergonomic. In this context, this study aims...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,140 Views
23 Pages

Enhancing Driving Safety Evaluation Through Correlation Analysis of Driver Behavior

  • Majun Fei,
  • Weiqi Zhou,
  • Hai Zhao,
  • Chaofeng Pan,
  • Dehua Shi and
  • Xinke An

30 April 2025

This paper presents a method for evaluating driving behavior safety based on real-world urban driving data collected from on-road experiments. The aim of this study is to develop a comprehensive and interpretable evaluation framework to improve the i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
133 Citations
10,044 Views
10 Pages

22 August 2017

Occupational exposure to pesticides in agricultural applications may cause acute and long-term health effects to farmers, and thus research on factors that reduce exposure is useful. However, studies on the relevance and effectiveness of training are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,745 Views
17 Pages

Safety and Economic Evaluations of Electric Public Buses Based on Driving Behavior

  • Yiwen Zhou,
  • Fengxiang Guo,
  • Simin Wu,
  • Wenyao He,
  • Xuefei Xiong,
  • Zheng Chen and
  • Dingan Ni

29 August 2022

The widespread adoption of electric public buses has a positive effect on energy conservation and emission reduction, which is significant for sustainable development. This study aims to assess the safety and economy of electric buses based on driver...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,600 Views
17 Pages

Safety training (ST) is the primary means of avoiding unsafe behaviors, but it has not achieved the expected impact on improving workplace safety because of the high psychological stress it brings to workers. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,041 Views
14 Pages

Risk taking among construction workers is a critical topic in construction safety research. The aim of this study was to empirically investigate how optimism bias and safety climate influence construction worker risk-taking behavior. A survey with a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,703 Views
18 Pages

19 November 2024

While the role of safe riding behavior as a safety contributor for cyclists has been increasingly studied in recent years, there have been few studies analyzing cycling behavior in relation to crash-related outcomes. Indeed, to the best of our knowle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,335 Views
13 Pages

Driver’s behavior characteristics (DBCs) influence car-following safety. Therefore, this paper aimed to analyze the effect of different DBCs on the car-following safety based on the desired safety margin (DSM) car-following model, which include...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
10,095 Views
24 Pages

24 April 2022

Organizations increasingly emphasize and require their members to engage in innovative behavior because it is directly associated with organizational sustainability and survival. This study aims to address whether ethical leadership enhances subordin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
15,255 Views
49 Pages

Implementation of Behavior-Based Safety in the Workplace: A Review of Conceptual and Empirical Literature

  • Silvia Carra,
  • Eleonora Bottani,
  • Giuseppe Vignali,
  • Marianna Madonna and
  • Luigi Monica

21 November 2024

Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) methodology is more and more implemented by companies in several industrial fields for preserving workers’ safety through a structured behavioral intervention with measurable effects as part of a socially sustainable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
8,105 Views
21 Pages

This study was conducted to investigate how the work environment and psychological state influence construction workers’ perceptions and safety behaviors. Structural equation modeling was developed with five factors on the working environment (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,398 Views
18 Pages

10 September 2024

The intelligent transformation of coal mines is one of the current trends in developing China’s coal mining industry. To explore the impact of miners’ insecurity on their safety behavior under this trend, miners’ psychological resil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
7,866 Views
24 Pages

China’s construction industry developed rapidly and safety production has become a vital issue. Improving the safety behavior of construction workers is an important measure to effectively decrease construction safety accidents. At present, a N...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,143 Views
19 Pages

Analysis of Risky Driving Behavior of Urban Electric Bicycle Drivers for Improving Safety

  • Dan Zhou,
  • Mengying Chang,
  • Guobin Gu,
  • Xin Sun,
  • Huizhi Xu,
  • Wenhan Wang and
  • Tao Wang

22 January 2022

In this work, to clarify the impact of electric bicycle drivers’ risky driving behavior on driving safety, we used multiple regression analysis methods combined with a questionnaire survey of residents of the city of Guilin, China. We studied t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,736 Views
19 Pages

18 February 2016

Human interactions with horses entail certain risks. Although the acceptance and use of protective gear is increasing, a high number of incidents and very low or inconsistent voluntary use of safety equipment are reported. While past studies have exa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,580 Views
14 Pages

19 December 2023

This study aims to explore the relationship between leader and follower psychological capital (PC) congruence, intrinsic safety motivation (ISM), and safety behavior (SB). The construction industry is one of the most dangerous industries, and most sa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,331 Views
22 Pages

19 September 2023

While numerous studies have delved into the ramifications of job insecurity for organizational outcomes, past endeavors have not adequately unveiled the mediating and moderating factors in the connection between job insecurity and safety behavior, es...

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