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This study draws on distributed-cognition and socio-technical systems perspectives to examine how formal, material, and relational carriers help senior-management safety prioritization acquire a recorded organizational footprint under performance pressure. We conceptualize institutionalization, digital safety system support, and team safety climate as interdependent carriers and analyze three-wave, multi-source data from 183 firms and 667 teams in Chinese high-risk industries. Firm-level operational leading indicators (OLI) from safety-management records serve as the primary recorded-outcome layer. OLI analyses show that institutionalization and digital safety system support are robustly associated with the overall recorded-indicator composite; team safety climate, by contrast, aligns most clearly with proactive reporting. The three carriers leave carrier-specific signatures across recorded-indicator bundles: institutionalization in closed-loop rectification, digital safety system support in digital-system activity, and team safety climate in proactive reporting. Performance pressure operates mainly as an additive contextual force in the recorded layer. 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