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The Spillover Effects on Employees’ Life of Construction Enterprises’ Safety Climate

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  • Xiang Wu

    (School of Engineering and Technology, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
    Key Laboratory of Deep Geodrilling Technology, Ministry of Land and Resources, Beijing 100083, China)

  • Wenwen Yin

    (Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China)

  • Chunlin Wu

    (School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
    Beijing Key Laboratory of Emergency Support Simulation Technologies for City Operations, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China)

  • Xiaowei Luo

    (Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)

Abstract

Organizational safety climate will produce spillover effects and thus affect the individuals’ performance in their family life. As a mainstay industry in many countries, the construction industry has a considerable number of employees and the research on the spillover effects from the safety climate of construction enterprises has important theoretical and practical significance to improve the safety behavior of construction employees in their family life. In this study, we thoroughly reviewed the literature to identify the dimensions of the safety climate spillover, obtain empirical data of the construction employees through a questionnaire survey, and use the data analysis method to study the spillover effects of the safety climate of the construction enterprises from the perspective of work–family integration, and reveal its influence mechanism. This study developed a questionnaire to measure the safety climate spillover of the construction enterprises including two dimensions, namely values and behaviors, with nine measured items. Management commitment and safety attitude in the safety climate were positively related to the spillover, and management commitment had the greatest impact on the spillover, while the other components were not significantly related to the spillover. The two forms of spillover, values and behaviors, were mutually influential, and the safety climate had a more significant impact on the values. This paper contributes to the current safety research by developing a factor structure of spillover effects of the safety climate on the lives of construction employees, thus providing a more profound interpretation of this crucial construct in the safety research domain. The spillover effects of the safety climate’s measurement questionnaire serve as an important tool for spillover among construction enterprises. Findings can facilitate improvement in both theories and practices related to the spillover effects of the safety climate on the lives of employees. This paper studies the spillover effects of construction enterprises’ safety climate, to reveal its influencing mechanism, and can thus provide theoretical guidance for preventing safety accidents in employees’ life.

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  • Xiang Wu & Wenwen Yin & Chunlin Wu & Xiaowei Luo, 2017. "The Spillover Effects on Employees’ Life of Construction Enterprises’ Safety Climate," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(11), pages 1-17, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:9:y:2017:i:11:p:2060-:d:118273
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    1. Massoud Moslehpour & Purevdulam Altantsetseg & Weiming Mou & Wing-Keung Wong, 2018. "Organizational Climate and Work Style: The Missing Links for Sustainability of Leadership and Satisfied Employees," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(1), pages 1-17, December.
    2. Hubert, Philipp & Abdel Hadi, Sascha & Mojzisch, Andreas & Häusser, Jan Alexander, 2022. "The effects of organizational climate on adherence to guidelines for COVID-19 prevention," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 292(C).
    3. Nobuki Hashiguchi & Jianfei Cao & Yeongjoo Lim & Yasushi Kubota & Shigeo Kitahara & Shuichi Ishida & Kota Kodama, 2020. "The Effects of Psychological Factors on Perceptions of Productivity in Construction Sites in Japan by Worker Age," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(10), pages 1-18, May.

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