Strengthening Workplace Health Promotion Through Emergency Preparedness: A Normative Mediation Analysis

Area of Science:

• Occupational Health
• Organizational Psychology
• Prevention Science

Background:

• Workplace emergency preparedness is crucial for occupational health and safety.
• Understanding employee willingness to assist in emergencies is key to prevention science.
• Organizational safety culture relies on effective emergency response mechanisms.

Purpose of the Study:

• To test a dual-mediation model of workplace emergency preparedness.
• To examine the influence of perceived institutional attitudes and incentive mechanisms on willingness to provide emergency assistance.
• To explore the mediating roles of subjective norm attitudes and attitudes toward emergency responsiveness.

Main Methods:

• Survey data from 147 frontline employees in a high-risk private-sector organization.
• Structural equation modeling using confirmatory factor analysis and robust maximum likelihood estimation.
• Bootstrap resampling (5,000 iterations) to examine indirect effects.

Main Results:

• Perceived workplace institutional attitudes significantly influenced willingness to provide emergency assistance, primarily through subjective norm attitudes.
• Attitudes toward emergency responsiveness did not significantly mediate the relationship.
• Attitudes toward incentive mechanisms showed a direct but limited association with willingness to provide emergency assistance.

Conclusions:

• Workplace emergency preparedness is enhanced by embedding supportive norms within organizational systems.
• Leadership expectations, peer modeling, and recognition practices can normalize helping behaviors.
• Actionable strategies for health promotion and prevention involve strengthening normative reinforcement for emergency assistance.