Abstract
The daily operation and maintenance work of railways are very dangerous. Railway employees often have safety accidents while working, and the safety citizenship behavior (SCB) of railway employees can effectively reduce the accident rate. Therefore, it is of great significance to identify the main safety constructs affecting the SCB of railway employees to minimize accidents. This paper puts forward a supposed model of the influence mechanism of safety leadership (SL) on employee SCB through the mediation of safety attitude (SA). A questionnaire was used with railway employees, and 238 valid responses were finally collected. A structural equation model (SEM) was used to explore the relationship between SL, SA and SCB. The results showed the SL is positively related to the SA, and it can further promote the SCB of railway employees. In addition, SA has a positive impact on employee SCB.
Highlights
At present, with the vigorous development of freight industry, the important role of railway transportation is becoming more and more prominent
Mullen [32] displayed that safety-specific transformational leadership was positively and significantly associated with safety compliance, safety participation and safety attitude (SA) of the employees, which further affects the improvement of safety behaviors [33]
The results showed that the KMO value of the scale was 0.880, which was more than 0.7, and the sig value was less than 0.05, which proved that the data were valid and suitable for factor analysis [58]
Summary
With the vigorous development of freight industry, the important role of railway transportation is becoming more and more prominent. Risk still exists during the daily operation and maintenance of railways, and railway employees often have safety accidents at work [1]. An accident occurred with the Chinese train D301 from Beijing South Station to Fuzhou South Station due to the irregular operation of workers, leading to 172 injuries and 40 fatalities [2]. From the data of 2015-2017, the safety situation of railway employees in China is still not optimistic, and the number of accidents and deaths is still very high. Based on the previous studies of scholars, accidents can be avoided by improving safety citizenship behavior (SCB) of the employees, which is very significant to reduce violations by the organization [6,7]
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