Group-Level Safety Climate in the Construction Industry: Influence of Organizational, Group, and Individual Factors

Retrofitting works has become increasingly important in the construction industry, as it plays an effective role in providing solutions to maintain, upgrade or change the functions to the existing or aged buildings. Very often, safety issues of retrofitting works are underestimated because there may be unreported accidents in small projects and there is no separate classification of accident statistics for the retrofitting works within the construction industry. As safety climate is widely regarded as a contributing factor to safety performance, the aim of this research was to examine the relationship between safety climate and safety performance in retrofitting works context. The safety climate questionnaire NOSACQ-50 has been employed to measure safety climate in retrofitting works. Field patrols were undertaken to distribute the safety questionnaires to the local worksites that undertake retrofits in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. 264 valid questionnaires were collected. SEM was employed to examine the existence and strength of the relationship between safety climate and safety performance. PLS-SEM was utilised to estimate the parameters of the structural model. The model has exposed a positive relationship between safety climate and safety performance in retrofitting context. This research was the first to examine the relationship between the second order latent variables. A positive relationship (0.60 with 36 percent of explained variance) was found between safety climate and safety performance.

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How construction industry safety climate affect migrant workers’ safety performance: A structural equation model-based analysis

Advanced Materials and Structural Engineering ◽

10.1201/b20958-111 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 521-525

Author(s):

Q Liu ◽

Y Wang ◽

L Zhang ◽

C Du ◽

H Chen

Keyword(s):

Construction Industry ◽

Structural Equation Model ◽

Migrant Workers ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Safety Climate ◽

Equation Model ◽

Safety Performance ◽

Model Based ◽

Model Based Analysis

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Group-Level Safety Climate Scale

PsycTESTS Dataset ◽

10.1037/t21277-000 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Dana Yagil ◽

Gil Luria

Keyword(s):

Safety Climate ◽

Group Level ◽

Climate Scale

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Safety Climate Perceptions in the Construction Industry of Saudi Arabia: The Current Situation

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17186717 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (18) ◽

pp. 6717 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ibrahim Mosly ◽

Anas A. Makki

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Construction Industry ◽

Safety Climate ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Initial Step ◽

Safety Education ◽

Safety Behavior ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

Climate Perceptions ◽

And Performance

Workers’ wellbeing and safety is important in the construction industry due to the high risk of accidents. Safety climate development is a positive initial step toward raising the safety levels of construction practitioners. This study aims at revealing the factors influencing safety climate perceptions in the construction industry of Saudi Arabia. A set of extracted factors from the literature was validated and used to design a comprehensive questionnaire survey. Data was collected from 401 personnel working on 3 large construction project sites in Saudi Arabia. Descriptive statistics and the crosstabulation algorithm, Kendall’s tau-b correlation test, were used to analyze the data. The study revealed a set of 13 factors influencing safety climate perceptions, which are: Supervision, guidance and inspection, appraisal of risks and hazards, social security and health insurance, workmate influences, management safety justice, management commitment to safety, education and training, communication, workers’ safety commitment, workers’ attitude toward health and safety, workers’ involvement, supportive environment, and competence. The results also indicate the significant and anticipated role of top management in safety climate at sites. Implications of this study include assisting construction industry stakeholders to better understand and enhance safety climate, which in turn will lead to improved safety behavior, culture, motivation, and performance.

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A Safety Climate Framework for Improving Health and Safety in the Indonesian Construction Industry

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17207462 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (20) ◽

pp. 7462 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Fatma Lestari ◽

Riza Yosia Sunindijo ◽

Martin Loosemore ◽

Yuni Kusminanti ◽

Baiduri Widanarko

Keyword(s):

Construction Industry ◽

Safety Climate ◽

Management Practices ◽

Occupational Injuries ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Working Environment ◽

Cultural Norms ◽

Safety Communication ◽

Trade Offs ◽

Safety Research

The Indonesian construction industry is the second largest in Asia and accounts for over 30% of all occupational injuries in the country. Despite the size of the industry, there is a lack of safety research in this context. This research, therefore, aims to assess safety climate and develop a framework to improve safety in the Indonesian construction industry. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from 311 construction workers. The results show a moderately healthy safety climate but reflect numerous problems, particularly around perceived conflicts between production and safety logics, cost trade-offs being made against other competing project priorities, poor safety communication, poor working conditions, acceptance of poor safety as the norm, poor reporting and monitoring practices, poor training and a risky and unsupportive working environment which prevents workers from operating safely. Two new safety climate paradoxes are also revealed: contradictions between management communications and management practices; contradictions between worker concern for safety and their low sense of personal accountability and empowerment for acting to reduce these risks. A low locus of control over safety is also identified as a significant problem which is related to prevailing Indonesian cultural norms and poor safety policy implementation and potential conflicts between formal and informal safety norms, practices and procedures. Drawing on these findings, a new integrated framework of safety climate is presented to improve safety performance in the Indonesian construction industry.

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