WITHDRAWN: Reprint of “A safety climate measure for construction sites”

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Dedobbeleer ◽  
François Béland
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Construction Sites

scholarly journals Exploring the Relationship between Safety Climate and Worker Safety Behavior on Building Construction Sites in Taiwan

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3326
Author(s):  
Wei Tong Chen ◽  
Hew Cameron Merrett ◽  
Ying-Hua Huang ◽  
Theresia Avila Bria ◽  
Ying-Hsiu Lin
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Safety Training ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
The Relationship

Construction occupational accidents are often attributed to workers’ having an insufficient perception of how their actions influence safety in the construction site. This research explores the relationship between safety climate (SC) and personnel safety behavior (SB) of construction workers operating on building construction sites in Taiwan. The study discovered a significant positive relationship between SC and SB of Taiwan’s building construction sites, and in turn SC level had a positive impact on SB participation and overall safety perceptions. The higher the SC cognition of Taiwan’s building construction workers, the better the performance of SB was found to be. The dimension of "safety commitment and safety training" had the greatest relationship with SB. Safety training also had a deep impact on the cognition of SB. Therefore, the organizational culture and attitudes to safety coupled with the successful implementation of safety education and training can effectively enhance SC and worker SB on building construction sites in Taiwan, thereby potentially reducing the impacts of the underlying organizational factors behind safety related incidents.

The Impact of Social Capital on Construction Safety Climate

2015 ◽  
Vol 719-720 ◽  
pp. 1251-1257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu Quan Li ◽  
Xiu Yu Wu ◽  
Yue Hui Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Construction Safety ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Structural Dimension ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Cognitive Dimension ◽  
Construction Enterprises ◽  
The Impact

The importance of safety climate on safety performance in construction has been highly acknowledged, and the definitions and elements of safety climate have been widely discussed over the years. However, researches about how to improve constructions safety climate have been less focused. The aim of this study was to find the impact of social capital on safety climate. A questionnaire of social capital and safety climate was conducted by 316 employees from 45 construction sites, and an empirical analysis was made by exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and structural model theory (SEM). The results showed that: the cognitive dimension and relational dimension of social capital are significantly positive correlation to safety climate, while the structural dimension is not significant. The findings of this study provide useful information to improve safety climate for construction enterprises.

scholarly journals The effect of behavior based safety(BBS) program on safety climate and safety behaviors

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwangsu Moon ◽  
Kyehoon Lee ◽  
Jaehee Lee ◽  
Shezeen Oah
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Safety Behaviors ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Steel Manufacturing ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Behavior Based ◽  
The One

This study examined the effectiveness of behavior-based safety(BBS) program in improving safe behaviors and safety climate of organization. BBS program was applied to the steel manufacturing and construction sites. The dependent variables were measured by the percentage of employees’ safe behaviors observed and perceived safe behaviors and safety climate of employees. BBS program consisted of goal-setting, feedback, and incentive. The one group pretest-posttest design was adopted for perceived safe behaviors and safety climate. Observed safe behaviors were measured during the baseline and intervention phases(AB design). The results indicated that the mean percentage of employees’ safe behaviors observed increased after introducing BBS program. Also, the mean scores of perceived safe behaviors and safety climate of employees significantly increased. Based on these results, the implications of this study and suggestions for future research were discussed.

Using a psychological contract of safety to predict safety climate on construction sites

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 9-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Tanvi Newaz ◽  
Peter Davis ◽  
Marcus Jefferies ◽  
Manikam Pillay
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Construction Sites

scholarly journals Exploring the Multilevel Perception of Safety Climate on Taiwanese Construction Sites

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 4596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen ◽  
Merrett ◽  
Huang ◽  
Lu ◽  
Sun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Comparison Analysis ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Management Level ◽  
Perception Of Safety ◽  
Safety Strategies ◽  
Pearson Correlation Analysis ◽  
One Way Anova

This study investigates multilevel differences in safety climate (SC) perception dimensions between management and laborers on Taiwanese construction sites. With Taiwan’s high rate of construction site safety incidents, implementing successful safety strategies requires understanding differences in SC perceptions between management and laborers. This study used a structured SC questionnaire with responses from 74 managers and 261 laborers. The analysis of collected data includes (1) descriptive statistics comparing the selected dimensions; (2) Pearson correlation analysis examining relationships between SC perception dimensions; (3) t-test and one-way ANOVA to assess relationships between the respondent’s background and SC perception dimensions; and (4) Post-Tukey comparison analysis to compare the SC perception differences between management and laborers. The results indicate that management-level staff show a higher degree of SC perception than laborer-level staff. This level of SC perception varies between individual dimensions. The strongest convergence between the two groups is observed in the dimension of ‘workmate care of each other’, and the greatest divergence is found in ‘risk decision making’. Previous studies regarding SC perception in Taiwan specifically focus on construction workers and neglect the differences in perception between management and laborers. The outcomes of this study contribute to the understanding of multilevel SC perceptions, which can be used in the development of targeted strategies to improve SC on construction sites.

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