Abstract

Recent reviews of occupational safety and health literature emphasize the influence of organizational factors. Using the current studies on the relations of the organizational climate and the performance, this study attempted co develope the mechanism of the effect of the safety climate as an organizational characteristics, and the safety knowledge and safety motivation as a personal characteristics on safety performances such as safety behavior and occupational accidents. It replicated the safety climate - safety behavior model of Griffin and Neal(2000) to Korean workers, and expended the model to accidents, which represent the eventual safety performance. Griffin and Neal's model fitted well, and also provided the more appropriate model to Korean workers. In the expended model applied to total workers, the relation from safety behavior to accidents are not significant But in the model applied to production workers, which has higher risk level, it revealed a significant path. Because of the rareness of accident and the reverse effect of accident to safety behavior, the effect of safety behavior to accidents are low.