The impacts of safety climate and computer self-efficacy on near-miss incident reporting intentions

Near-misses management has drawn the attention of safety specialists to reduce the likelihood of future catastrophe for improving employee safety and process reliability. Though near miss reporting systems could be implemented successfully from a technical perspective, success may depend on employees being willing to use the delivered system. This paper examined the impact of safety climate on near miss reporting intention. We defined a model of near miss reporting system usage intention by incorporating safety climate with behavioral intention theory, including theory of reasoned action (TRA) and extended technology acceptance model (TAM2) In our analysis, we found out that (1)behavioral intention to use a near miss incident reporting system was affected indirectly by safety climate and self-efficacy. And computer self-efficacy had less impact on intention than safety climate. (2)The behavioral intention was directly influenced by subjective norm, perceived usefulness and perceived ease-of-use. Subjective norm exerted almost the same impact on intentions as perceived usefulness did. Managerial implications were then discussed.