scholarly journals Job Description- Related Differences in Work Safety Perceptions of the Workers in Construction Industry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
İkbal Erbaş
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Work Safety ◽  
Job Description ◽  
Safety Perceptions

scholarly journals Drzewa decyzyjne w analizie wypadkowości w budownictwie

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-233
Author(s):  
Wojciech Drozd ◽  
Marcin Kowalik
Keyword(s):  
Decision Trees ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
Work Safety ◽  
Statistical Classifiers

The construction site and its elements create circumstances that are conducive to the formation of risks to work safety during the execution of works. Analysis indicates the critical importance of these factors in the set of characteristics that describe the causes of accidents in the construction industry. This article attempts to analyse the characteristics of the construction site to indicate their importance in defining the circumstances of an accident at work. The research was carried out on the basis of data from the register kept by the District Labour Inspectorate in Krakow. Main substantive tasks include isolating patterns of accidents on the site and identifying those of the analysed characteristics that are important in defining these patterns. In terms of methodology, the dissertation presents method of analysing data resources: using statistical classifiers – decision trees algorithm.

scholarly journals Factors of Safety Culture and their Implication to Job Satisfaction in the Construction Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-181
Author(s):  
Richard Surungan Hutajulu ◽  
Dewi Susita ◽  
Osly Usman ◽  
Anis Eliyana
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Work Safety ◽  
Hypothesis Model ◽  
Leadership Competence

Objective - Human Resources Management has a significant role in a construction company. Also, a professional or competitive workforce facilitates a construction project, which has a high level of risk. Therefore, a well-developed work safety culture is required for risk management. This study determines the factors that influence Safety Culture, which is limited to leadership, communication, competence, and work environment, as well as their influence on job satisfaction in the Indonesian construction industry. Methodology/Technique - A Total of 392 valid respondents out of 400 who answered the questionnaire were construction workers with one-year experience or more. Furthermore, the data were tested for validity and reliability using SPSS 25.0, and the hypothesis model was analyzed using the Amos 23.0 Structural Equation Model (SEM). Findings - Statistical data showed leadership, competence, and the work environment are critical factors that affect safety culture, while communication does not. Also, work safety culture has a significant effect on job satisfaction level in the construction industry. Novelty - Therefore, it is recommended to build a safety culture that pays attention to leadership, competence, as well as work environment, which have implications for job satisfaction. Type of Paper - Empirical. Keywords: Safety Culture; Job Satisfaction; Construction Industry; SPSS; SEM Amos JEL Classification: J28, J29. URI: http://gatrenterprise.com/GATRJournals/GJBSSR/vol9.2_7.html DOI: https://doi.org/10.35609/gjbssr.2021.9.2(7) Pages 174 – 181

scholarly journals WORK SAFETY AND THE RELEVANCE OF TRAINING OF PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE) IN THE CIVIL CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY (CCI)

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (20) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valquiria Delani Alves Dias ◽  
David Barbosa de Alencar ◽  
Fábio Soares de Oliveira ◽  
Maria Cristiane Bandeira Santos ◽  
Camily Murrieta V. O. Bezerra
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Personal Protective Equipment ◽  
Protective Equipment ◽  
Work Safety

scholarly journals Safety disconnect: Analysis of the role of labor experience and safety training on work safety perceptions

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esteban Lafuente ◽  
Jesús Abad ◽  
Yancy Vaillant
Keyword(s):  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Safety Training ◽  
Work Safety ◽  
Codified Knowledge ◽  
Customized Training ◽  
Safety Perceptions ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Ordered Probit Models

Purpose: This study analyzes work safety perceptions among workers and safety experts in the construction industry. Furthermore, we evaluate whether experiential learning—i.e., labor experience—and knowledge-enhancing practices—that we link to safety training—explain the differences in work safety perceptions of workers and safety experts by triggering different types of overconfidence biases.Design/methodology/approach: The proposed hypothesis are tested by applying ordered probit models on a unique dataset comprising information for 558 employees and 215 safety experts working in the Spanish construction sector.Findings: The results reveal that previous labor market experience has a significantly negative effect on perceived work safety, that is, risk awareness decreases with respect to labor experience. However, the findings indicate that differences in perceived work safety between workers and safety experts are not explained by previous labor experience. Furthermore, the results suggest that higher levels of safety training—which we link to the acquisition of codified knowledge—negatively impacts workers’ safety perceptions, while this effect turns positive among safety experts. This result suggests that safety experts’ perceived work safety is affected by overconfidence that results from their greater safety-specific training (over-precision bias).Originality/value: Work safety constitutes a relevant key performance indicator. The proposed analysis of the role of labor experience and safety training on perceived work safety in different types of employees contributes to better understand how organizations can improve the management of their workforce by triggering specific actions—such as the design of customized training programs—that may help in reducing the safety disconnect between employees, in terms of perceived work safety.

Research Methods for Non-Representational Approaches to Organizational Complexity: The Dialogical Mediated Inquiry

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 769-801 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Lorino ◽  
Benoît Tricard ◽  
Yves Clot
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Semiotic Mediation ◽  
Syntactic Complexity ◽  
Work Safety ◽  
Organizational Complexity ◽  
Narrative Thinking ◽  
Inquiry Process ◽  
Specific Contribution

This paper explores the methodological implications of non-representational approaches to organizational complexity. Representational theories focus on the syntactic complexity of systems, whereas organizing processes are predominantly characterized by semantic and pragmatic forms of complexity. After underlining the contribution of non-representational approaches to the study of organizations, the paper warns against the risk of confining the critique of representational frameworks to paradoxical dichotomies such as intuition versus reflexive thought, or theorizing versus experimenting. To counter this difficulty, we suggest the use of a triadic theory of interpretation, and more particularly the concepts of semiotic mediation, inquiry and dialogism. Semiotic mediation dynamically links situated experience and generic classes of meanings. Inquiry articulates logical thinking, narrative thinking and experimenting. Dialogism conceptualizes the production of meaning through the situated interactions of actors. A methodological approach based on these concepts, the ‘dialogical mediated inquiry’ (DMI), is proposed and tested with a case study about work safety in the construction industry. This interpretive view requires the researcher to complicate the inquiry process rather than the mirroring models of reality. In DMI, the inquiry process is complicated by establishing pluralist communities of inquiry in which different perspectives challenge each other. The paper ends with a discussion of the specific contribution of this approach compared with other qualitative methods, and its present limitations.

BIM-PROCESSES-HEALTH & SAFETY

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Bodtländer ◽  
Manfred Helmus ◽  
Agnes Kelm ◽  
Anica Meins-Becker
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Rfid Technology ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Work Safety ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Level Of Details ◽  
Building Project ◽  
Flow Of Information

BIM describes a method to integrate and connect all relevant, building related data into a virtual data model over the whole lifecycle. The superior goal of all BIM-related research projects at the Chair of Construction Management and Economics is therefore to advance the efforts of data model standardization and the corresponding flow of information between all participants involved in a building project. To identify all relevant data, the focus of each project is hence directed to the question that needs which information from whom, how, when and what for. The aim of the project is the application of the BIM-method and the use of RFID-technology to improve work safety in the real estate and construction industry is to identify, define and standardize information relevant to work safety, so that they can be used for prevention-measures with BIM. Initially therefore all work safety relevant processes have to be identified and defined in regard to the detail content and level of details. This will lead to the possibility of cross-company planning regarding work safety relevant processes with BIM as well as the optimization of work safety during the construction and operating phase in additional use of AutoID-Technologies.

scholarly journals The Job Specification and Job Description for Indonesian Workers in Malaysian Construction Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5C) ◽  
pp. 242-244
Keyword(s):  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Domestic Product ◽  
Round Table Discussion ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Job Description ◽  
Table Discussion ◽  
Job Specification

The construction industry is one of the major industries contributing to the growth of Malaysia’s gross domestic product (GDP). Therefore, in order to overcome the shortage of local workers, Malaysia is highly dependent on the Indonesian workers to work in the construction industry. The aim of this paper is to identify the job specification and job description of the Indonesian workers in the Malaysian construction industry. A round-table discussion was carried out to obtain the valuable information. The results indicated that the most important job specification for each Indonesian worker who works in the construction industry is the need to have a Construction Personnel Card. In addition, a skilled Indonesian worker is needed to be certified and awarded a Foreign Workers Certificate (PKPA). However, in terms of job description, Indonesian workers are regulated by several sets of policies and laws.

scholarly journals Exploring the Antecedents of Safety Performance for Malaysian Construction Industry: A Conceptual Framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
Mohammad Fazley Hossain Chowdhury ◽  
Rusli bin Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Work Safety ◽  
Leadership Attributes ◽  
Safety Leadership ◽  
Safety Compliance ◽  
Conceptual Paper

This conceptual paper intends to present as a proposition of a framework to understand the antecedents of safety performance behaviors.  The elements of performance which refer to the tangible behaviors exhibited by individuals at work, safety participation and safety compliance, are crucial in maintaining safe workplace for construction industry. This article illustrates potential antecedents in determining safety performance behaviors as effect of safety leadership attributes and safety climate components based on the Wu et al. (2008) model and current literature in this field. The article contributes to a better understanding of safety situation in the construction industry through the relationships among safety leadership behaviors, safety climate components and safety performance behaviors. This paper ends with a suggestion of the conceptual framework to study the antecedents of safety performance in the context of Malaysian construction industries.  

scholarly journals An Analysis of Organisational and Task Stressors Among Construction Professionals in Ghana

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-135
Author(s):  
Elvis Attakora-Amaniampong ◽  
Stephen Ameyaw ◽  
Lea Anzagra
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Stress Coping ◽  
Job Description ◽  
Organizational Policies ◽  
Organizational Stressors ◽  
Training Scheme ◽  
Stress Coping Strategies ◽  
Mixed Approach ◽  
And Task

The construction industry constitutes one of the imperative and promising industries in Ghana in term of output and outcome. However, the stressful nature of this industry has become an issue of concern to many. The study identifies and examines the critical organisational and task stressors among construction professionals in Ghana, using sequential explanatory mixed approach by means of mainly questionnaire survey and interviews. Data from a sample size of 372 construction professionals within the ten regions of Ghana were examined using factor analysis and pairwise ranking. The results of this study reveal that organizational policies, treatment and reward constitute the most critical organizational stressors. Overload and job description ambiguity turned out as the most critical task stressors. It was uncovered that organisation stressors are ubiquitous. The findings of this study can serve as policy alert for an optimal stress and employee-oriented policies as well as training scheme for construction professionals in Ghana. In-depth nationwide qualitative study on organisational and task stress coping strategies of construction professionals is recommended.

scholarly journals A study on the state of knowledge of managers of construction sites in the field of occupational safety

2019 ◽  
Vol 262 ◽  
pp. 07001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wojciech Drozd ◽  
Marcin Kowalik
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Work Safety ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Safety Awareness ◽  
Independent Functions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Site Managers

The construction site and its elements create circumstances that are conducive to the formation of risks to work safety during the execution of works. Analysis indicates the critical importance of these factors in the set of characteristics that describe the causes of accidents in the construction industry. They are indicated as important factors having an impact on risks, and increasingly are the subject of studies on work safety in construction. The research focused on as well as the awareness of health and safety of site managers - who perform independent functions in construction, legally involved in the construction process. Main substantive tasks included comparison of observed values with expected values in regard to characteristics related to health and safety awareness among site managers.

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