The construction sector continues to record one of the highest accident rates across all industries. While safety accidents are primarily caused by unsafe worker behavior, most safety systems and programs in practice focus on improving unsafe conditions rather than addressing behavioral causes. Although academic interest in worker behavior is growing, existing studies tend to examine only fragmented pathways, lacking a comprehensive understanding of how safe behavior is formed. This study aims to fill that gap by proposing a safe behavior induction model that identifies key psychological and organizational factors, as well as their relationships, in promoting safe behavior among construction site workers. The model comprises five core constructs—safety knowledge, safety consciousness, safety attitude, safety culture, and safety behavior—and is validated through seven hypotheses. A total of 284 responses were collected from reinforced concrete construction workers through random sampling, and the model was tested using structural equation modeling with AMOS 27. The results showed that all seven hypotheses were statistically significant. The proposed model contributes to the academic understanding of construction safety by integrating psychological theory with empirical validation. It is expected to serve as a theoretical foundation for future research and as a practical framework for developing targeted safety management strategies and policy interventions.
Lee et al. (Tue,) studied this question.