Abstract
An increase in elderly workers and foreign workers is likely to lead to an increase in safety accidents, but it is not easy to exclude them unconditionally as the inflow of new domestic workers is very low. Accordingly, interest in the safety of elderly workers and foreign workers has recently increased, and it can be confirmed that efforts to reduce safety accidents customized for elderly workers and foreign workers are needed. Therefore, in this study, in order to derive safety culture factors that have a positive effect on improving the safety participation movement of elderly workers and foreign workers, the ratio of elderly workers and foreign workers to the relationship between safety culture and safety participation actions was analyzed through an adjustment regression analysis. By verifying the moderating effect, the difference in the influence of safety culture factors on safety participation action according to the ratio of elderly workers and foreign workers was investigated. To verify the research model, a moderated regression analysis was conducted to verify the moderating effect of the duty ratio of elderly workers and foreign workers on the relationship between safety culture and safety participation action using the IBM SPSS Statistics 28 statistical analysis package. The main results of this study are summarized as follows. 1) As a result of verifying the influence relationship between safety culture and safety participation action, it was found that it was statistically significant and safety culture explained about 72% of safety participation action. All of the sub-factors (leadership of top management, Leadership of Lead Framer, Education and System, Work Environment, Communication) that constitute safety culture were found to have significant effects. 2) As a result of verifying the moderating effect of the working ratio of elderly workers and foreign workers, it was found that the working ratio of elderly workers had no effect of moderating the relationship between safety culture factors and safety participation action. On the other hand, it was found that the foreign worker duty ratio had a direct effect on safety participation action as well as a moderating effect. In particular, ‘Leadership of Lead Framer’ and ‘Work Environment’ were meaningful. As for 'Leadership of Lead Framer', the higher the ratio of foreign workers, the higher the positive effect on the safety participation movement. In ‘Work Environment’, the higher the ratio of foreign workers, the lower the degree to which the positive effect on safety participation action increased. Through this study, it is expected to understand the specific impact of safety culture on the safety participation action of elderly workers and foreign workers, and to propose a new approach to safety accident prevention and safety management at construction sites.
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