scholarly journals Safety climate and safety behaviors in the construction industry: The importance of co-workers commitment to safety

Work ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 401-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie V. Schwatka ◽  
John C. Rosecrance
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Behaviors

A Multi-level Measure Of Safety Climate And Associations With Safety Behaviors In The Fire Service

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd D. Smith ◽  
Mari-Amanda Dyal ◽  
Yongjia Pu ◽  
Stephanie Dickinson ◽  
David M. DeJoy
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Fire Service ◽  
Safety Behaviors ◽  
Multi Level

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.

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

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (18) ◽  
pp. 6717 ◽  
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.

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

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (20) ◽  
pp. 7462 ◽  
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.

scholarly journals Defining and Measuring Safety Climate: A Review of the Construction Industry Literature

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 537-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie V. Schwatka ◽  
Steven Hecker ◽  
Linda M. Goldenhar
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Safety Climate

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.

Systematic impact of institutional pressures on safety climate in the construction industry

2016 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 230-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qinghua He ◽  
Shuang Dong ◽  
Timothy Rose ◽  
Heng Li ◽  
Qin Yin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Institutional Pressures

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.

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