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http://dx.doi.org/10.14346/JKOSOS.2021.36.1.36

Structural Relations Between Safety Leadership, Safety Observance, Safety Education, and Safety Culture - K Company Case Study -  

Wee, Kuk Hoan (Department of Safety Engineering, Pukyong National University)
Bang, Won Seok (Department of Business, Gyonnam National University of Science and Technology)
Kim, Sun Hwa (Department of Counselling Social Work, Canada Christian College and School of Graduate Theological Studies)
Chang, Seong Rok (Department of Safety Engineering, Pukyong National University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.36, no.1, 2021 , pp. 36-43 More about this Journal
Abstract
Effective leadership in safety performance, such as safety leadership, has received attention as a factor that greatly affects safety performance in various high-risk industrial environments. Based on prior research, this study aims to analyze the impact relationship between safety leadership, safety observance, safety education, and safety culture to reveal the effectiveness of safety leadership. In addition, this study will examine the effects of safety leadership on safety observance and safety education to identify the effects of safety understanding. For this purpose, a survey was conducted with employees of an aviation manufacturing company in Gyeongnam. For verification, a positive factor analysis, correlation analysis, and structural equation analysis were conducted using the AMOS 21.0 program. This study's findings show that, first, safety leadership has a positive and significant impact on safety observance and safety education. Second, safety leadership was found to have a direct impact on organizations' safety culture. Third, although safety observance has significant positive effects on safety culture, safety education has often been rejected. Finally, after verifying the control effect of safety understanding, this study uncovered the presence of an adjustment effect in the effect of safety leadership on safety observance. Therefore, based on the results of this study, theoretical and practical implications suggest that through the exercise of safety leadership, managers can improve their organizations' safety culture by increasing organizations' compliance with safety observance and/or acceptance of safety education.
Keywords
safety leadership; safety observance; safety education; safety culture; safety understanding;
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