Analysis of safety climate effect on individual safety consciousness creation and safety behaviour improvement in shipping operations

Unsafe acts of ship officers have been a direct cause many maritime accidents. In the industry, much effort has made to prevent unsafe and improve safe behaviours officers. The positive effect organizational safety climate on human behaviour well documented in literature. Within this context, paper aims pioneer development measurement constructs shipping operations analyze its impact consciousness Using primary data collected from 284 deck captains, an exploratory confirmatory factor analysis structural equation model are used reveal relationship among climate, behaviour. research results show that (1) generates behaviour; (2) (3) as mediator between Its managerial implications practical contributions lie provision useful insights how managers can effectively gain improved by appropriate introduction consciousness.