Safety citizenship behavior is a kind of proactive behavior performed outside of duty, playing a key role in preventing accidents and improving workplace safety. Organizational environment has been shown to be an important antecedent for motivating safety citizenship behavior, and safety management practices are the foremost factor in shaping the organizational environment. However, little is known about whether and how safety management practices influence safety citizenship behaviors. Therefore, this study introduced affective trust and cognitive trust as mediating variables based on social exchange theory to explore the mechanism of safety management practices on safety citizenship behavior. The results showed that trust plays a mediating role between safety management practices and safety citizenship behavior. Among them, cognitive trust is more likely to trigger safety citizenship behaviors than affective trust. Second, among the six safety management practices, safety training promotes cognitive trust the most, and employee involvement promotes affective trust the most. Notably, management commitment and safety promotion policies cannot influence safety citizenship behavior through trust. These findings provide reference and guidance for engineering project managers on appropriately implementing safety management practices to motivate safety citizenship behaviors to achieve organizational safety goals.
 

safety management practices; safety citizenship behavior; cognitive trust; affective trust; social exchange theory