The Relationship between Safety-Efficacy, Safety Climate and Safety Behavior: The Mediating Role of Regulatory Focus and Moderating Role of Subjective Task Complexity

Abstract

The main reason of the current study was to determine how better regulatory focus orientations could explain the relation between safety-efficacy, safety climate and safety behaviors of individuals’. Deficient or the absence of occupational safety and health (OSH) not just adversely influences the project boundaries of cost, quality, and timetable; however affect the sustainability of natural climate. Occupational safety and health (OSH) is a very significant subject in project management, but rare study contributes to the manufacturing sectors of Pakistan. The proposed model explains the relationship between safety-efficacy, safety climate and individual’s safety behaviors, through the mediating role of self-regulatory focus and moderation role of “subjective task complexity”. A sample of 430 respondents (which have been working under plant installation/maintenance) projects from manufacturing sector over the Pakistan is selected. Basic demographic, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), normality test, regression process, moderation, mediating Process by Andrew Hayes is executed using SPSS V25 and AMOS 26 software’s. Our 4 hypotheses are accepted and 1 hypothesis is rejected. This study demonstrates promotion and prevention focus play partial mediating between safety climate, safety-efficacy and safety behaviors of individuals’. This study also reveals the effect that only subjective task complexity can positively affect the safety x behavior of individuals. The current study provides some directions for future research and limitations which is described in chapter-6 briefly.