The Relationship Between Safety Management Practices and Safety Performance in Malaysian Construction Industry: The Mediating Moderating Role of Safety Motivation

This study aims to examine the dual role of safety motivation for refining and understanding the bearing of causality between safety management practices and safety performance in the construction industry. To measure the new approach to the field of safety management research, structural equation modelling procedures was utilized towards three competing models as (a) mediating model, (b) moderating model, and (c) mediating moderating model, to provide essential distinctions between competing configurationally models that are tested to determine the best fitting model. Overall, evidenced was found for all hypothesized models. The findings illustrated that safety motivation is partially mediated moderated the relationship between safety management practices and safety performance and has provide the superior fitting data. This result makes valuable contributions to the safety management literature through the establishment of safety motivation as a decisive dual role of mediating moderating to understand the complexity of organizational -psychological -behavioral relationship in the workplace.