Characteristics analysis and clustering study of coal mine safety responsibility-fulfilling stakeholders

Against the backdrop of vigorously promoting the full-staff safety production responsibility system in China, in order to reveal the safety responsibility-fulfilling characteristics and role positioning of personnel at all levels and types in coal mines, promote refined management of safety responsibility groups, and enhance the effectiveness of implementing full-staff safety production responsibilities, this study is based on stakeholder theory and integrates grey clustering method and analytic hierarchy process to build a clustering model for coal mine safety responsibility-fulfilling stakeholders, exploring the characteristics, classification, and priority order of stakeholders in coal mine safety performance. The research results indicate that personnel at different levels and departments of coal mining enterprises have varying degrees of importance under different characteristic indicators such as power intervention, economic dependence, social interest, urgent demand, and risk-taking; the comprehensive clustering of the three major groups of mine manager, deputy safety mine manager, and safety supervision department leaders is extremely important type （e*=Ⅰ）, with maximum comprehensive vector weights of 0.753 1, 0.756 5, and 0.493 7, and comprehensive clustering evaluation values of 8.498 8, 8.513 0, and 7.955 6, respectively; the mine manager, coal mine leaders in charge of safety, and functional department leaders are the core stakeholders responsible for coal mine safety. Non-safety coal mine leaders, functional department employees in charge of safety, and leaders of production teams are the main stakeholders responsible for coal mine safety, and other safety responsibility stakeholders are general stakeholders. Therefore, the higher the leadership level of coal mines and the closer the business scope and safety of the group, the higher the characteristic indicators and comprehensive importance of power intervention and economic dependence in the process of safety responsibility-fulfilling. It is suggested that in the process of implementing and assessing the full-staff safety production responsibility system, coal mines should pay attention to balancing the interests and demands of various employee groups, and rely on the role advantages of different groups to promote a differentiated, classified, and dynamic management strategy for full-staff safety responsibility-fulfilling.