Supportive psychosocial conditions have a positive causal effect on safety behaviour, and
this effect is fully mediated through safety climate. This causal sequence may be observed in
a longitudinal autoregressive model as the psychosocial conditions having a lagged effect on
safety climate, which in turn will have a lagged effect on safety behaviour.
The influence of psychosocial conditions on safety behaviour operates cross level, shown
as a unit level as well as an individual level effect, thus: