Hazard management in coal mines is a critical pathway to ensuring the safe production of coal enterprises. Existing research primarily focuses on adjusting incentive mechanisms and enhancing punitive measures to encourage employees to engage in hazard identification, while comparative studies on the factors driving these behaviors and their moderating effects remain limited. Therefore, this study integrates the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the stimulus-organism-response (SOR) model, introducing working conditions as a stimulus to construct a theoretical framework for coal miners’ proactive hazard identification.
A questionnaire survey was used to collect data, and structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed to analyze the interaction mechanisms among the drivers of employees’ proactive hazard identification behavior.
The results indicate that miners’ willingness to identify hazards is positively correlated with their behavior. Attitude has the most significant impact on the intention to identify hazards, followed by subjective norms (SN), while perceived behavioral control (PBC) shows no significant effect on intention. Among the variables of working conditions, social pressure exerts the greatest influence, followed by incentive schemes and environmental conditions. Moreover, income negatively moderates the relationship between intention and behavior.
Limitations include a small sample size from a single region, potential social desirability bias in self-reported data and the need for additional variables to fully explain proactive hazard recognition behavior. Future research should address these gaps for improved model accuracy.
These findings provide coal mine safety managers with valuable insights for policymaking aimed at enhancing employees’ hazard identification intentions and behaviors.
