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The Moderating Effect of Digital Human-Based Safety Education on the Relationship between Safety Culture, Safety Awareness, and Safety Participation Behavior of Foreign Workers*

  • The Journal of Transdisciplinary Studies
  • Abbr : JTS
  • 2024, 8(1), pp.1-20
  • Publisher : The Society for Transdisciplinary Studies
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Received : March 29, 2024
  • Accepted : April 25, 2024
  • Published : April 30, 2024

Younghee Noh 1 Jong-Hwa Jang 2

1건국대학교
2단국대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study aimed to investigate the effect of safety training measures to reduce the fatality rate from accidents among foreign construction workers and to provide a safer work environment, in conjunction with the Serious Accidents Punishment Act. A face to face interviews survey was completed by 171 foreign workers in the construction sector in Korea. Workers’ safety culture, safety consciousness, safety participation behaviors, and human-based safety training were measured. In the multi ple regression, the most significant revealed, first, that safety culture has a positive impact on safety consciousness, clearly demonstrating the relationship between workers’ safety culture and their safety consciousness. Second, in terms of the relationship between safety culture and safety behavior, it was found that safety culture, especially communi cation and work environment, significantly positively affects safety par ticipation behaviors. Third, regarding the relationship between safety consciousness and safety behavior, safety consciousness was found to have a very high positive impact on safety participation behaviors. This study marks an important milestone in the research on safety culture among foreign workers in the construction industry. It confirmed that strengthening workers’ safety culture leads to an improvement in safety consciousness and a direct increase in safety participation behaviors, highlighting the role of safety consciousness and the importance of human-based safety training in this process. Construction industry stake holders and policymakers should base their strategies for more effective safety management on these findings.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.