Abstract
Employee turnover has been linked to negative business performance outcomes, increased costs, and disruptions to operations. Research to explore predictors of turnover intention is important to the mining industry, including the stone, sand, and gravel mining (SSGM) industry. Safety climate has been linked to job satisfaction and reductions in turnover intention in other fields, but investigation within SSGM has virtually been non-existent, creating a knowledge gap. This research seeks to address this dearth of information. Cross-sectional data from 452 workers in the SSGM industry were analyzed to assess the influence of safety climate on turnover intention through job satisfaction. Mediation analyses showed that job satisfaction significantly mediated the relationship between safety climate and turnover intention. The implications of these novel findings are important for SSGM administrators. It suggests that bolstering safety programs and increasing safety climate perceptions will help increase job satisfaction and reduce turnover intention among workers in the SSGM industry.
Highlights
Employee turnover has been studied thoroughly in general industry and has been linked to negative business performance outcomes, increased training, and recruitment costs associated with replacing lost employees, disruption of operations, and other factors [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
We suggest perceptions of a strong safety climate will signal to employees that they are valued members of the organization, which in turn should be related to high levels of job satisfaction and fewer intentions to turnover
Job satisfaction was a significant predictor of turnover intention (β = −0.468, p < 0.001) and the direct effect of safety climate on turnover intention was significant
Summary
Employee turnover has been studied thoroughly in general industry and has been linked to negative business performance outcomes, increased training, and recruitment costs associated with replacing lost employees, disruption of operations, and other factors [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. Of particular interest lately is the influence of safety climate on job satisfaction and turnover intention. Research in this area is fairly limited [12,13,14], with no identifiable studies addressing all these factors within the mining industry. Safety climate can be described as employee perceptions related to the overall importance and prioritization of workplace safety. Positive perceptions of safety climate have been linked to trust, improved employee safety behavior outcomes, safety performance, and reduced workplace injury and illness [15,16,17,18,19,20]. Safety climate is an important workplace metric, but one that has mostly
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