The Moderating Role of Safety-Specific Trust on the Relation Between Safety-Specific Leadership and Safety Citizenship Behaviors

The authors examined whether safety-specific trust moderates or mediates the relationship between safety-specific transformational leadership and Subordinates' safety citizenship behavior. Data front 139 subordinate-supervisor dyads were collected front the United Kingdom construction industry and analyzed using hierarchical regression models. Results showed that safely-specific trust moderated rather than mediated the effects of safety-specific transformational leaders oil subordinates' behavior. Specifically. in conditions of high and moderate safety-specific trust, leaders had a significant effect oil subordinates' safety citizenship behavior. However. in conditions of low, safety-specific trust, leaders did not significantly influence subordinates' safety citizenship behavior. The implications of these findings for general safety theory and practice are discussed.