From a sociotechnical perspective, this study explores how technological components (digital platform empowerment) and institutional components (external government pressure and internal top management support) influence accident prevention performance through multi-level interactions. The results demonstrate that digital platform empowerment enhances frontline employees’ accident prevention capabilities, thereby improving enterprises’ overall accident prevention performance. In addition, the moderating effect of government pressure is contingent on the level of top management support. This study re-examines the application of the sociotechnical perspective in the field of digital safety management and underscores the significance of the integration of technological and institutional components for preventing industrial accidents.

Zhang Lin is an Associate Professor and Master’s Supervisor. His research interests include the impacts of digitalization on firms and individuals, as well as theoretical and quantitative research methods in information systems studies. He has published 22 academic papers in internationally renowned journals such as Production and Operations Management (UTD24), Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, and Information & Management. Among these publications, 15 were authored by him as the first author or corresponding author, and 3 have been selected as ESI Highly Cited Papers. He has also published and presented more than 10 papers at prestigious international conferences in the fields of information systems and management, including INFORMS Annual Meeting, ICIS, HICSS, AMCIS, and PACIS, with one paper receiving a Best Paper nomination. In recent years, he has participated in projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation of the Ministry of Education, and presided over one Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities project (Social Sciences).