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- ItemSafety behaviour in high risk industries(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03) Griessel, Rigardt; Mariri, Tendai; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. Dept. of Industrial Psychology.ENGLISH SUMMARY : This study advocates for the importance of safety for organisations in high risk industries and the financial and person related impact that a lack of safety and in particular safety behaviour can have on organisations and the employees in those organisations. This highlights the need to explore the factors that influence safety behaviour of employees within high risk industries, specifically the construction industry in South Africa. The research objective of this study is therefore to determine why there is variance in safety behaviour amongst employees in the construction industry in South Africa and to propose a safety behaviour structural model that attempts to explain this variance. To construct this safety behaviour structural model literature is consulted to identify, define, and analyse the factors that influence safety behaviour, and the relationships between these factors are hypothesized. As a result a safety behaviour structural model is proposed. The resultant structural model proved to be very comprehensive and a number of obstacles arose that prevents first generation testing of the complete model. Due to research constraints the safety behaviour model is abridged to allow for empirical testing. To test the proposed hypotheses and structural model an ex post facto correlation design with Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) is used. A sample of 217 construction workers from various construction sites in the Cape Winelands area participated in the study. The results of empirical testing are unpacked, following this managerial implications and recommendations for future research are discussed.