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 Investigating the Relationships between Safety Climate and Safety Performance Indicators in Retrofitting Works

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan Alaa Nadhim ◽  
Carol K.H. Hon ◽  
Bo Xia ◽  
Ian Stewart ◽  
Dongping Fang
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
The Relationship

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.

FACTORS INFLUENCING MANAGEMENT COMMITMENT TO SAFETY PERFORMANCE IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abubakar Sadiq Mahmoud ◽  
Mohd. Hamdan Ahmad ◽  
Yahya Mohd. Yatim
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Construction Companies ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Management Commitment ◽  
Design For Safety ◽  
Research Outcome

The significance of safety commitment to improving safety performance and reducing risk is widely accepted and substantive research has been conducted globally in order to improve the safety performance of the construction industry such as: “safety commitment”, “design for safety”, “safety culture”, “safety climate”, “behavior base safety BBS”. Despite the research and improvements that have been made through the years, construction stakeholders are continuously being challenged with occurrences of injury on site. Therefore, this paper aims to identify the factors, which influence of management commitment toward improving safety performance in the construction industry of Nigeria. Data was collected through a questionnaire and analysis was performed using SPSS version 16 software. The results of the study showed that “involvement of workers in the preparation of safety programs for the site” and “appropriate issuance of motivational directives by the top management to enhance safety” significantly impact on the safety performance of construction stakeholders. Thus, the research outcome would be of benefit to top management of construction companies, policy makers and building development approvers.

scholarly journals Enhancing Safety Performance by Recognizing the Role of Perceived Management Commitment to Safety in the Jordanian Healthcare Industry: Conceptual Framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (01) ◽  
pp. 01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Adel Al-Bsheish
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
The Body ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Healthcare Industry ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Management Commitment

<p>Nowadays, workplace safety is a clear concern for both individuals and organizations, particularly in developing countries such as Jordan. This is evidenced by the expanding body of safety-related literature published on this regard. This paper develops a conceptual framework of safety management based on perceived organizational support theory. The main aim of this framework is to disclose the causal links between a physiological empowerment, respect, perceived management commitment to safety and safety performance based on previous studies. Such framework could have impact on practical issues in healthcare industry, as well as enhancing the body of related literature on perceived management commitment to safety. Consequently, this framework presents a new trend concerning perceived management commitment to safety through investigating each dimension of safety climate individually.    </p><p> </p>

scholarly journals Developing an Effective Conceptual Framework for Safety Behaviour in Construction Industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 03006
Author(s):  
Chaher Zid ◽  
Narimah Kasim ◽  
Hocine Benseghir ◽  
Muhammad Nomani Kabir ◽  
Abdullah Bin Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Human Errors ◽  
Work Pressure ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Behavioural Factors ◽  
Safety Behaviour

The construction industry involves one of the most hazardous occupation for workers due to complex management processes, environmental issues, work pressure and heavy and complicated equipment involved in modern construction projects. Despite the advancement of technology in the construction industry, an escalating number of fatal accidents occur because of the human errors and the unsafe behaviours. In this research, an analysis for previous studies has been conducted to define all safety behavioural factors in construction industry for improving the safety performance in construction industry. All the studies were categorised in accordance with their methodologies, analytical methods, variables, and the findings in order to build an effective conceptual framework. The framework comprises of three main categories that incur direct impact toward the safety behaviour in construction industries, namely: (a) organizational factors, (b) safety climate factors, and (c) individual factors. Each category has own variables which make a total of 16 factors for all categories. The framework facilitates to assess the effectiveness of a construction industry, identify the deficiencies and the weakness, and create procedures to manage the accident in future by controlling the safety behaviour of employees.

scholarly journals An exploratory study of safety communication networks of ethnic minority crews in the Hong Kong construction industry

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sainan Lyu ◽  
Carol K.H. Hon ◽  
Albert P.C. Chan ◽  
Arshad Ali Javed ◽  
Rita Peihua Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
Safety Communication ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

PurposePrevious studies have highlighted that communication barrier was one of the major safety problems faced by ethnic minority (EM) workers. This study aims to model the predominant safety communication networks of EM crews and explore the relationships among safety communication networks, individual attributes, safety climate, near misses and injuries of EM crews.Design/methodology/approachCase studies were conducted with EM crews in the Hong Kong construction industry. Demographic attribute, network, safety climate and accidents data were collected through questionnaires and analyzed by a combination of social network analysis (SNA), cross-case comparison and nonparametric tests.FindingsThe results revealed that language proficiency, network density and level of reciprocity were contributing factors of distinguishing high and low safety performing EM crews. EM management received more safety information from EM workers than local management. The centrality of EM workers was significantly related to their age, the perceived priority of safety and language ability.Practical implicationsThe research findings regarding the impact of safety communication network characteristics on the safety performance of EM crews provides insights to employers on how to cultivate effective safety communication patterns within EM crews that can lead to better safety performance. The connections between personal attributes and their positions in safety communication networks could help the employers identify the EM workers who are positioned on edges of networks and need more attention.Originality/valueThis study contributes to knowledge by enriching the limited research on analyzing safety communication of small construction crews using SNA and expanding the research object to EM construction crews in the literature, who are more vulnerable to construction accidents. This research also extends the existing body of knowledge from studies mainly carried out in Western culture to Eastern culture. Although safety communication has been regarded as important for EM workers, there is a lack of quantitative analysis on this at a crew level. The present study provides empirical research to reveal authentic safety communication networks and their connections with safety performance and personal attributes.

Safety leadership and safety performance in petrochemical industries: The mediating role of safety climate

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 716-721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsung-Chih Wu ◽  
Shu-Hsuan Chang ◽  
Chi-Min Shu ◽  
Chien-Tsun Chen ◽  
Chien-Peng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Safety Leadership ◽  
Petrochemical Industries
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