The effect of the safety climate and conscientiousness on the safety performance with mediating role of motivation

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of safety climate and conscientiousness on safety performance, considering mediating role of safety motivation. The sample of this study consisted of 332 employees of an industrial organization in Ahvaz which selected by stratified random sampling method. Participants completed Safety Climate, Conscientiousness, Safety Motivation and Safety Performance Questionnaire. The reliability and validity of all the scales were found acceptable. AMOS-16 and SPSS-17 were used for data analysis. Fitness of the proposed model was examined through structural equation modeling (SEM), the indirect effects were tested by using Baraon and Kenney procedure. Finding indicated that the proposed model has good fit indices, safety climate and conscientiousness have direct and indirect relations with the safety performance and safety motivation was found to be the key mediator in explaining these relationships.