Safety Climate and Turnover Intention: mediating role of Occupational Injuries and moderating role of Safety specific Transformational leadership

Abstract

Safety climate is emerging as the foremost concern of manufacturing industries as it is related to organizational productivity.  This study examines the main and interactive effect of Safety Climate and Turnover Intention among industrial manufacturing employees, with occupational injuries as a mediator and safety-specific transformational leadership as moderator. The non-probability convenience sampling technique was used for data collection through questionnaires. The study was done on a sample of 209 employees belonging to manufacturing industries of twin cities of Pakistan. Results revealed the interesting insight that safety climate has no impact on turnover intention among manufacturing employees due to the high rate of unemployment and poverty. Moreover, safety-specific transformational leadership does not moderate the relationship between safety climate and occupational injuries. Findings suggest that the management should build supportive job conditions to actively manage their human capital and promote a culture of safety through training to retain the valuable workforce.