Given the progressive growth of interest in both academic and practitioners about safety performance in the workplace, the aim of this study is to provide a review of the literature on workplace safety from the perspective of the antecedent of safety performance. By conducting a systematic literature review, a list of relevant contributions on workplace safety is provided. The contributions were analyzed and classified regarding the arguments about the antecedents of safety performance. The study integrated different domains of the antecedent of safety performance to provide a clear and consistent definition for the concept of antecedent when applied to safety performance. Moreover, a list of common antecedents of safety performance was extracted from the literature and categorized. Finally, a unified and classified framework for antecedents of safety performance is proposed. From an academic perspective, this paper enables future research in developing research streams on the antecedents of safety performance. Equally important, practitioners can employ the proposed framework to select leading KPIs for safety performance evaluation and monitoring in the workplace
