Hejduk Irena, Jan Olak Andrzej, Karwowski Waldemar, Tomczyk Przemyslaw, Fazlagić Jan, Gac Paweł, Hejduk Hubert, Sobolewska Sylvia, Alrehaili Omar A, Çakit Erman
SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland.
The Bronisław Markiewicz State Higher School of Technology and Economics in Jarosław, Poland.
Work. 2020;65(2):349-359. doi: 10.3233/WOR-203087.
Knowledge management is a central resource in achieving the goals of occupational safety efforts.
The main objective of this study was to investigate the relationships between the implicit (tacit) and explicit (formal) safety knowledge of employees and their effects on employee propensity to follow safe practices at work.
A survey with seven safety constructs: 1) tacit safety knowledge, 2) explicit safety knowledge, 3) attitudes toward safety: psychological aspects, 4) attitudes toward safety: emotional aspects, 5) safety culture: behavioral aspects, 6) safety culture: psychological aspects, and 7) propensity to follow safety regulations and safe work practices (safety at work), was designed and used for data collection. A total of 468 production workers from three manufacturing companies located in southeastern Poland provided valid responses to the self-administered survey. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the collected data.
The results support the hypothesized relationships among tacit and explicit knowledge of safety requirements, procedures, and practices, and the propensity of employees to follow work practices at work through the mediating variables of safety culture (with behavioral and psychological factors) and attitudes toward safety (with psychological, emotional, and behavioral factors).
While both tacit and explicit safety knowledge affect safe practices, tacit knowledge has an important influence on the use of explicit safety knowledge at work.
知识管理是实现职业安全目标的核心资源。
本研究的主要目的是调查员工的隐性（默会）和显性（正式）安全知识之间的关系，以及它们对员工在工作中遵循安全实践倾向的影响。
设计了一项包含七个安全构念的调查：1）隐性安全知识，2）显性安全知识，3）对安全的态度：心理方面，4）对安全的态度：情感方面，5）安全文化：行为方面，6）安全文化：心理方面，7）遵循安全法规和安全工作实践的倾向（工作中的安全），并用于数据收集。来自波兰东南部三家制造公司的468名生产工人对自行填写的调查问卷提供了有效回复。采用结构方程模型对收集到的数据进行分析。
结果支持了安全要求、程序和实践的隐性和显性知识之间的假设关系，以及员工通过安全文化（行为和心理因素）和对安全的态度（心理、情感和行为因素）等中介变量在工作中遵循工作实践的倾向。
虽然隐性和显性安全知识都影响安全实践，但隐性知识对工作中显性安全知识的使用有重要影响。
