Empirical Study Based on the Neal, Griffin, and Hart's Safety Climate Model
Zohar(1980) began to emphasize the influence of social, organizational or psychological context in occupational safety and health study. With this research trend, Neal, Griffin, and Hart(2000) developed sequential model of safety climate. This paper tried to review their model of relationships among safety climates, safety knowledge, safety motivation, and safety performance(safety compliance and safety participation).
Based on the responses from 207 manufacturing workers, this paper reviewed the proposed relationships. The results of statistical analysis showed that leadership has affirmative effects on safety knowledge and motivation, and precaution activities only on safety knowledge, safety system only on safety motivation. And also, safety knowledge and motivation have affirmative effect on safety compliance and participation.