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. 2021 May 27;18(11):5783.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph18115783.

The Mediating Role of Job Competence between Safety Participation and Behavioral Compliance

Jia-Ming Wang  1 , Pin-Chao Liao  2 , Guan-Biao Yu  2
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The Mediating Role of Job Competence between Safety Participation and Behavioral Compliance

Jia-Ming Wang et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

The effective improvement of employee behavioral compliance and safety performance is an important subject related to the sustainable development of the construction industry. Based on data from a Chinese company (n = 290), this study used a partial least squares-structural equation model to clarify the relationship among safety participation, job competence, and behavioral compliance. Empirical analysis found that: (1) safety participation had a significant positive impact on employees' behavioral compliance; and (2) job competence played a partial mediating role between safety participation and behavioral compliance. By selecting two new perspectives of safety participation and job competence, this study derived new factors affecting behavioral compliance, constructed a new theory about safety management, and conducted an in-depth discussion on improving behavioral compliance theoretically. Practically, the research put forward a new decision-making model, deconstructed the mechanism between safety participation and behavioral compliance, and provided new guiding strategies for improving employee behavioral compliance.

Keywords: behavioral compliance; job competence; mediate; safety participation.

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Conflict of interest statement

All authors, G.-B.Y., P.-C.L. and J.-M.W., declare that they have no conflict of interest or financial conflict to disclose.

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Theoretical model.
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The direct effect model.
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Model with job competence as a mediating variable.
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Refined management model based on this research.
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