The effect of safety knowledge and safety motivation to work accident with work compliance as intervening variable at PT. Wijaya Karya Project Division 1, Indonesia

The construction industry has the highest accidents rates of all industries and the highest rates for injuries and casualties. Work accident is significant for attention to reduce cost in a company. Factors affecting work accidents are safety knowledge and motivation and work compliance. The present study aims to investigate the influence of safety knowledge, safety motivation, safety compliance, and work accidents. This research is a descriptive type with causal research design. The number of research samples is 100 workers in PT WIKA Project Division 1. Data analysis model used Partial Least Square Structural (PLS). Empirical evidence demonstrates safety knowledge, and safety motivation has a positive and significant effect on work compliance. Furthermore, work compliance and safety motivation have a positive and significant effect on work accidents. Safety knowledge has an insignificant effect on work accident. Safety knowledge has a positive and significant influence on work accidents through safety compliance. Safety motivation has a positive and significant influence on work accident through safety compliance. Suggestions to be given are: Feedback is important to make supervisors more aware of the potential causes of accidents experienced by direct workers in the field. Applying reward for workplace-compliant employees and those who do not have adherence to occupational safety will be punished.