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When Age Meets Perception: How Subjective and Chronological Age Shape Safety Motivation and Behaviour.

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Workplace safety is improved when a positive safety climate boosts motivation, which drives safe behaviors. Subjective age perceptions significantly influence this relationship, highlighting the need for age-aware safety strategies.

Keywords:

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Background:

Workplace safety is crucial for employee well-being and organizational success.
Understanding the factors influencing safety behaviors is essential for effective risk management.
The role of age, both objective and subjective, in shaping safety perceptions and behaviors requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

To examine how safety climate and safety motivation influence safety behaviors (compliance and participation).
To investigate the moderating role of chronological age and subjective age in these relationships.
To explore the mediating role of safety motivation in the safety climate-safety behavior link.

Main Methods:

Cross-sectional survey of 333 Italian employees across diverse sectors.
Utilized validated questionnaires for safety climate, motivation, safety behaviors, chronological age, and subjective age.
Employed moderated mediation analyses to test the proposed relationships.

Main Results:

A positive safety climate significantly predicted safety motivation.
Safety motivation mediated the relationship between safety climate and both safety compliance and participation.
Subjective age moderated the effects of safety climate and motivation on safety behaviors, while chronological age had a weaker impact.

Conclusions:

Safety motivation is a key mediator in fostering safe behaviors within a positive safety climate.
Subjective age perceptions play a significant indirect role in workplace safety outcomes.
Interventions should consider age-aware strategies and the interplay of motivational processes and age-related perceptions for an age-diverse workforce.