In this paper, determinants of safety consciousness are are empirically tested. In doing this, social factors such as safety education and safety information offered ; and the first kind of individual factors such as experiences of safety accidents or...
In this paper, determinants of safety consciousness are are empirically tested. In doing this, social factors such as safety education and safety information offered ; and the first kind of individual factors such as experiences of safety accidents or mishaps and past socio-economic status (SES) : the second kind of individual factors such as individual character, understanding on safety in general, and present socio-economic status (SES) are considered under study. All the variables under study are statistically significant in 1 ~ 5 % significant level and signs of regression coefficients of all the variables concorded with theoretical expectation. The size of influence on safety consciousness is as the following sequence. That is to say, present socio-economic status < individual characteristics < past socio-economis status < safety education <
understanding on safety in general < experience of safety accidents or mishaps < safety information offered. Through this empirical study, in order to level up safety consciousness the following policy implications can be derived. To level up safety consciousness, it is more important to increase understanding on sfety in general
through offering safety information and as next step, safety education is needed to enforce systemati- cally and then it needs to be taken root safety culture.