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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Mar. Sci.
Sec. Marine Affairs and Policy
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmars.2025.1599455
This article is part of the Research TopicEmerging Computational Intelligence Techniques to Address Challenges in Oceanic ComputingView all 5 articles
The effect of safety culture on the safety behavior of ship deck officers-Empirical evidence from shipping industry
Provisionally accepted- 1Shanghai Maritime University, pudong, China
- 2Shanghai Ship and Shipping Research Institute, Shanghai, China
- 3Department of International Shipping, School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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The development of safety culture in the shipping industry is an important measure for reducing ship accidents and improving navigation safety. Previous studies have considered the impact of different factors on safety culture and the impact of safety culture on ship officers' safety behavior with specific backgrounds, and this paper argues that it is necessary to investigate ship officers of various ship types in order to identify common safety problems in the shipping industry.This paper proposes research hypotheses and constructs a conceptual logic framework on the basis of literature review and theoretical evaluation. Based on the self-report questionnaires of 229 deck officers and captains, the hypotheses proposed above were empirically tested by using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). And for the first time, this paper divides the safety behavior of ship officers into three dimensions: safety compliance behavior, prosocial safety behavior and proactive safety behavior, so as to better describe the safety behavior and explore the influence of safety culture on different safety behaviors of ship officers. The results show that safety culture has a positive impact on the safety behavior of ship officers, and the influence of safety culture on safety behavior in different dimensions is also different. Shipping companies can promote their safety culture by improving safety management level and cultivating ship officers' safety values. This study theoretically reveals the important role of safety culture in improving ship officers' safety behavior, and expands the analytical dimension of ship officers' safety behavior research. At the practical level, this study can help shipping companies to formulate measures to improve the behavior of ship officers' according to their own conditions, so as to reduce the possibility of marine accidents.
Keywords: Safety culture, ship officer, safety behavior, structural equation modelling, Shipping industry
Received: 25 Mar 2025; Accepted: 21 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Xi, Wang, Hu, Han and Yin. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Jingbo Yin, Department of International Shipping, School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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