Present paper proposes a safety model appropriate to SME to combat the resource’s limitations own by the sector. Exploring the consequence of safety leadership on safety behaviour by inserting safety knowledge and attitudes as the intervening variables, the model was tested on 140 production employees from small manufacturer in northern Malaysia. Such studies have been shown to be infrequent specifically within SME setting. The analysis of the data collected via questionaire confirmed the intervening effect of safety knowledge and attitudes on the effect of safety leadership to safety behaviour, a finding which was rarely tested in previous literature. In conclusion, this report provides a foundational understanding of the relationship between these characteristics and serves as a springboard for future research on how supervisor safety leadership might improve workers' safety behaviour through their knowledge and attitude. Furthermore, this approach is suggested to be suitable in the SME manufacturings to overcome their limitations in succeeding good safety performance.