ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Occupational Health and Safety
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1607953
Can Industry-Education Integration Enhance Enterprise Employee Safety and Health Levels?
Provisionally accepted
- 1College of Wealth Management, Ningbo University of Finance and Economics, Zhejiang, China
- 2School of Management Science and Real Estate, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
- 3School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
- 4Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of HongKong, Hongkong, Hong Kong, SAR China
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Harmonious relationships between enterprises and employees are key to sustainable enterprise development. Therefore, the study explores whether industry-education integration can enhance enterprise employee safety and health levels, in order to alleviate enterprise labor-management issues. Based on panel data from Chinese A-share listed enterprises between 2012 and 2021, this study employs a quasi-natural experiment using China's pilot program for industry-education integrated enterprises. A difference-in-differences model is constructed to examine how this novel employee training model affects enterprise employee safety and health levels. This study finds that, first, industry-education integration promotes an increase in enterprise employee safety and health. Second, the mechanism behind this effect lies in enhancing enterprise internal control systems and strengthening media oversight. Third, this effect is more pronounced in state-owned enterprises and enterprises with stronger management capabilities. Fourth, industry-education integration also drives improvements in enterprise technological innovation. This study provides evidence of the positive impact of this new training model on enterprise development and offers corresponding policy recommendations.
Keywords: Industry-education integration, Employee Safety and Health, Internal control, Media Oversight, Difference-in-differences model
Received: 11 Apr 2025; Accepted: 14 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Chen, Zhu, Cheng, Feng and Zhao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Chengcheng Zhu, School of Management Science and Real Estate, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400045, China
Zhao Cheng, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
Jie Feng, Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of HongKong, Hongkong, Hong Kong, SAR China
Boya Zhao, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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