Objectives. This study explores the effects of employee perception of the management’s safety priority, safety rules and safety training on safety participation and safety behaviour decided by management, as well as the mediating role of safety training on the other four dimensions. Methods. The study covers employees working in 27 metal companies classed as hazardous/very hazardous in Turkey. The research data were collected by surveying 822 employees in the metal sector. Collected data were tested through explanatory and confirmatory factor analyses, in that order. Results. The findings of this analysis indicated statistically direct, positive effects of safety priority on safety rules and safety training, such an effect of safety rules on safety training, and again such effects of safety training on safety participation and safety behaviour. Besides, indirect relationships were detected between safety priority and safety rules and safety participation, and safety behaviour through the mediating role of safety training. Conclusion. Employee participation in health and safety issues as well as safe behaviour in the workplace depend on management prioritizing health and safety issues as much as production, formulating safe working rules, procedures and practices using comprehensive and regular training programmes.

目标。本研究探讨了员工对管理层安全优先、安全规则和安全培训的感知对管理层安全参与和安全行为的影响，以及安全培训在其他四个维度上的中介作用。方法。该研究涵盖了在土耳其被列为危险/非常危险的 27 家金属公司工作的员工。研究数据是通过调查金属行业的 822 名员工收集的。收集的数据按解释性和验证性因素分析的顺序进行了测试。结果. 该分析的结果表明，安全优先级对安全规则和安全培训的统计直接积极影响，安全规则对安全培训的影响，以及安全培训对安全参与和安全行为的影响。此外，通过安全培训的中介作用，发现安全优先级和安全规则与安全参与和安全行为之间存在间接关系。结论。员工对健康和安全问题的参与以及工作场所的安全行为取决于管理层将健康和安全问题与生产一样优先考虑，制定安全工作规则、程序和实践，并使用全面和定期的培训计划。