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Unsafe Behavior of Two Types of Miners Group

International Journal of Modern Education Research
Vol.4 , No. 6, Publication Date: Sep. 26, 2017, Page: 44-51

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[1]	Cheng Lian-hua, Department of Safety Science and Engineering, Xi´an University of Science and Technology, Xi´an, China.
[2]	Zhao Shuai, Department of Safety Science and Engineering, Xi´an University of Science and Technology, Xi´an, China.
[3]	Zhao Ya, Department of Earth Science and Resources, Chang’an University, Xi´an, China.
[4]	WU Feng, Department of Safety Science and Engineering, Xi´an University of Science and Technology, Xi´an, China.
[5]	Guo Hui-min, Department of Safety Science and Engineering, Xi´an University of Science and Technology, Xi´an, China.
[6]	Shen Kun, Department of Safety Science and Engineering, Xi´an University of Science and Technology, Xi´an, China.

Abstract

With the shift of coal industry to intensive mining method, the miners with longer seniority but lower educational degree (experience miners (EMs)), and the miners with shorter seniority but higher educational degree (knowledge miners (KMs)), have gradually become typical miners group in the coal mine. However, how about behavior patterns and the occurrence mechanism of unsafe behavior (USB) of these two types of miners? It is still not clear. Therefore, the behavior patterns of the two types of miners are analyzed through the reference of literatures and theories. Then, a conceptual model of the relationship between two types of miners and USB, with self-efficacy used as regulating variable, with self-worth reinforcement (SWR) and external benefit reinforcement (EBR) used as mediating variable, was constructed basing on the social cognitive theory, and using structural equation model method validated it. Empirical study was conducted by means of questionnaire investigation and regression analysis. It shows that KMs are prefer to look forward to SWR and act safely under the action of SWR, EMs are prefer to look forward to EBR and perform USB under the action of EBR, moreover, EMs have a directly positive impact on USB. Self-efficacy (SFE) positively regulates the relationship between EBR and USB, and negatively regulates the relationship between SWR and USB.

Keywords

Unsafe Behavior (USB), Knowledge Miners (KMs), Experience Miners (EMs), Self-worth Reinforcement (SWR), External Benefit Reinforcement (EBR)

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