scholarly journals A Study of Construction Site Safety Culture and Implications for Safe and Responsive Workplaces

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert C. Biggs ◽  
Vaughn L. Sheahan ◽  
Donald P. Dingsdag
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Injury Rate ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Data Interpretation ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Rehabilitation Process ◽  
Rehabilitation Professionals ◽  
Safety Knowledge

The high injury rate with in the Australian construction industry necessitates proactive action on the behalf of rehabilitation professionals. Safety culture is a concept that is gaining traction within this sector as a useful concept to further reduce fatalities, injuries and incidents. Ten focus groups were completed with Australia's largest constructors to investigate this concept of safety culture and to further evaluate the skills, knowledge and abilities required by people who hold influential and key roles. Data interpretation revealed three important personal characteristics that underlie a positive safety culture: safety knowledge, user/interpersonal skills and appropriate attitudes and beliefs. These findings are applied to the rehabilitation process and it is concluded that rehabilitation professionals need to contribute to the development of a positive safety culture by enhancing the workforce's understanding of injury management.

scholarly journals Exploring On-Site Safety Knowledge Transfer in the Construction Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 6426
Author(s):  
Ying-Hua Huang ◽  
Tzung-Ru Yang
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Transfer Process ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Safety Behaviors ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Safety Knowledge

A primary cause of occupational accidents is on-site workers not having proper or even adequate safety knowledge and awareness, leading to them failing to employ safety measures, equipment, or behavior to protect themselves. The complexity of construction projects and changes in organizational personnel complicate the safety knowledge transfer process. Therefore, to reduce occupational accidents in the construction industry, this study explored the on-site safety knowledge transfer process as well as its relationship with a safe working environment; it did this to understand the associations between various constructs in the process, which could be used as a reference for management personnel to promote on-site safety education and behaviors. This would allow safety knowledge to be learned and practiced by on-site workers, changing their unsafe behaviors and creating a safe on-site work environment. This study used structural equation modeling to empirically study the relationship between various constructs during safety knowledge transfer on a construction site. The results revealed that an excellent safety knowledge transfer environment can lead to favorable safety behavior as well as safety knowledge application and inspiration of on-site workers, which would affect their safety behaviors. More satisfactory safety behaviors of on-site workers could produce a safer working environment on the construction site. Moreover, although safety application and inspiration do not directly affect the safety of a work environment, they do so indirectly through safety behaviors.

Advancing Safety in Construction: An Organizational, Systemic, and Cultural Approach

2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (16) ◽  
pp. 994-997
Author(s):  
Maria Brunette ◽  
Carlos Evia ◽  
Peter Hoonakker ◽  
Brian Kleiner ◽  
Elizabeth Haro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Workforce Training ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Aging Workforce ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Cultural Strategies

This panel will focus on addressing the current challenges of the construction industry within the context of Macroergonomics field research. Organizational, systemic and cultural strategies to overcome these challenges will be described. A brief introduction focusing on the unique characteristics of the construction industry and how they relate to the macroergonomics approach will be provided followed by a comprehensive overview of the breadth of the problem. Panelists will highlight successful projects or approaches related to cultural issues, immigrant and aging workforce, training effectiveness and safety culture that have a great potential to enhance safety and health in the construction industry.

scholarly journals Variety of Accident Causes in Construction Industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 203 ◽  
pp. 02006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Idris Othman ◽  
Rafe Majid ◽  
Hisham Mohamad ◽  
Nasir Shafiq ◽  
Madzlan Napiah
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Safety Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire World ◽  
Construction Works

Construction Industry is a high risk industry and widely recognised as one of most hazardous occupation in the world. The statistic of accidents in Malaysia give us a picture that Malaysian construction industry is one of the dangerous sectors that need a drastic overhaul from the current site safety practices. This paper describes a review of the accident causes occurred in construction site by various researchers during the last twenty (20) years. This paper discusses the accident causes in Malaysia construction works and entire world. The data collected shows that variety of accident causes in construction industry either in Malaysia or other country.

Injury Rate and Safety Culture Improvement in the Construction Industry

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-57
Author(s):  
Z.M. Khabibullin ◽  
◽  
E.I. Bakhonina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Injury Rate ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Construction Enterprise ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
The Right

The subject of the study are the components of the corporate safety culture of a construction enterprise. The analysis was conducted related to the state of occupational safety, elements of its management system at one of the construction and installation trusts typical for the oil and gas industry (Surgut Construction and Installation Trust № 1 of «Surgutneftegas» PJSC). The existing problems in the field of occupational safety at the enterprise are considered, the level of maturity of the safety culture, the reasons for the deviant behavior of employees are determined. According to the Bradley Scale using the company DuPont Sustainable Solutions methodology, the enterprise is in a transition stage from a «dependent» to an «independent level». A number of the documents was developed and presented as a component of the safety culture elements. The package of documents is prepared in the form of an information notebook containing: «An act of the refusal to perform the work in case of danger to the life and health of an employee», «Procedure for the actions of an employee in case of danger to his life and health during the performance of work», «The procedure for the actions of engineering and technical employee in case of refusal of an employee to perform the work and execution of the «Act of refusal», «The list of violations of the occupational safety requirements, in the presence of which an employee has the right to refuse to perform the work in case of danger to his life and health». The algorithm of actions proposed in the prepared documents will allow the employees to refuse to perform the work in case of disputable situations on the legal grounds if there is a danger to their life and health. The recommendations presented in the paper will allow to create prerequisites for improving the level of safety culture, enhancing the teamwork in safety issues, and, in the future, the formation of an interdependent level of safety culture.

scholarly journals A scientometric analysis and review of fall from height research in construction

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vigneshkumar C ◽  
Urmi Ravindra Salve
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Scientometric Analysis ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Fall From Height ◽  
Safety Knowledge

Fall from height (FFH) in the construction industry has earned much attention among researchers in recent years. The present review-based study introduced a science mapping approach to evaluate the FFH studies related to the construction industry. This study, through an extensive bibliometric and scientometric assessment, recognized the most active journals, keywords and the nations in the field of FFH studies since 2000. Analysis of the authors’ keywords revealed the emerging research topics in the FFH research community. Recent studies have been discovered to pay more attention to the application of Computer and Information Technology (CIT) tools, particularly building information modelling (BIM) in research related to FFH. Other emerging research areas in the domain of FFH include rule checking, and prevention through design. The findings summarized the mainstream research areas (e.g., safety management program), discussed existing research gaps in FFH domain (e.g., the adaptability of safety management system), and suggests future directions in FFH research. The recommended future directions could contribute to improving safety for the FFH research community by evaluating existing fall prevention programs in different contexts; integrating multiple CIT tools in the entire project lifecycle; designing fall safety courses to workers associated with temporary agents and prototype safety knowledge tool development. The current study was restricted to the FFH literature sample included the journal articles published only in English and in Scopus.

scholarly journals Sustainable Ship Loading Planning for Prefabricated Products in the Construction Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 8905
Author(s):  
Wen Yi ◽  
Robyn Phipps ◽  
Hans Wang
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Transportation Cost ◽  
Sustainable Transportation ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Integer Optimization ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Capacity Limits ◽  
Proposed Model

This paper focuses on sustainable transportation of prefab products from factories to construction sites by ship. Since the transportation cost for all the prefab products of a construction site is mainly dependent on the number of cargo holds used on ships, a loading plan for prefab products that minimizes the number of holds required is highly desirable. This paper is therefore devoted to the development of an optimal loading plan that decides which prefab products are loaded into each cargo hold and how to pack these prefab products into the holds so that as few holds as possible are used. We formulate the problem as a large-scale integer optimization model whose objective function is to minimize the total number of cargo holds used and whose constraints represent the cargo hold capacity limits. We develop a heuristic to solve the problem and obtain a high-quality solution. We have tested the model and algorithm on a case study that includes 20 prefab products. We find that different cargo holds carry prefab products that have quite different densities. Moreover, the orientations of many prefab products are different from their default orientations. The results demonstrate the applicability of the proposed model and algorithm.

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