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This paper focus the impact of safety management practices on safety compliance and the mediating role of employees' safety knowledge in large apparel firms in Sri Lanka. The methodology of this study was grounded on the quantitative approach and the type of investigation was correlational. The respondents were limited to 300 machine operators who were engaged during the period of the study in the large apparel firms in Sri Lanka. Data composed of a self-administered questionnaire containing 48 closed statements with a five point Likert type scale. Data was analysed through Statistical package of Social Science 23 and mediator examined through Sobel test. The results exposed significant impacts among safety management practises, safety compliance and safety knowledge constructs. Safety knowledge fully mediated the association among safety management practises and safety compliance. Results were imitative from the cross sectional technique and generalizability of the results to other groups of employees may get restricted as the sample contained only machine operators. This paper improves realistic confirmation in Sri Lankan context to approve the mediating role of employees' safety knowledge between safety management practices and safety compliance.