Construction Workers' Safety Behavior: A Path through Safety Leadership

Safety behavior among construction workers is essential to construction project safety. There is an urgent need for a deeper understanding of how it occurs, thus providing a theoretical basis for its management. This study devotes to clarifying how safety behavior among construction workers is predicted by safety leadership. A mediator model was established and data was collected from 189 construction workers in China. Results show a positive relationship between safety leadership and safety behavior among construction workers. This relationship is mediated by risk perception of each construction worker. This study contributes to the knowledge of safety behavior by explaining its occurrence through safety leadership, sheds light on the theory of leadership by capturing the role of safety leadership in construction project safety management, and offers construction managers guidelines about how to improve safety behavior among construction workers.