Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science (대한안전경영과학회지)

Korea Safety Management & Science (대한안전경영과학회)
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The Effect of Executive Safety Leadership on Workplace Hazard Levels: Focusing on the Mediating Effect of the Supervisor Role

경영진의 안전리더십이 작업장 유해위험수준에 미치는 영향: 관리감독자 안전보건 역할의 매개효과를 중심으로

  • Gyuduk Lee (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Ulsan) ;
  • Changkwon Park (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Ulsan) ;
  • Gilsang Jang (Department of Management Information Systems, University of Ulsan)
  • 이규득 (울산대학교 산업경영공학과) ;
  • 박창권 (울산대학교 산업경영공학과) ;
  • 장길상 (울산대학교 경영정보학과)
  • Received : 2024.05.28
  • Accepted : 2024.06.16
  • Published : 2024.06.30
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Abstract

Executive safety leadership is essential to prevent accidents in the workplace. However, will safety be secured by emphasizing only executive safety leadership to workers? In this study, the impact of executive safety leadership on the workplace hazard level was analyzed by adding the supervisor's safety role as a mediating variable. This paper shows that executive safety leadership has no direct effect on workplace hazard levels. However, executive safety leadership was found to have a significant impact on the supervisor safety role, and the supervisor safety role was found to lower the hazard levels in the workplace. In summary, executive safety leadership was found to reduce the hazard levels in the workplace through the full mediating effect of the supervisor safety role. Based on these research results, this study seeks to present the following recommendations to the government and management: The government should ensure that a workplace safety and health system is established by strengthening the effects of other mediating factors, such as strengthening the role of supervisors who are actually responsible for workplace safety and health. Executives must grant supervisors actual authority and responsibility to properly perform their safety roles and establish personnel and performance evaluation systems.

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