scholarly journals Relations between Safety Climate, Awareness, and Behavior in the Chinese Construction Industry: A Hierarchical Linear Investigation

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mudan Wang ◽  
Jun Sun ◽  
Hua Du ◽  
Cynthia Wang
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Hierarchical Linear Model ◽  
Final Conclusion ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Organizational Safety ◽  
Safety Awareness ◽  
Unsafe Behaviors ◽  
And Behavior

The vast majority of accidents in construction are generated by unsafe behaviors. Some researches also find that the behaviors could be influenced by the awareness and safety climate. The safety behavior and awareness belong to individual levels, while the safety climate belongs to the organization level. Previous studies mainly focus on the relationships between safety climate, safety awareness, and safety behavior without considering their different respective levels and the interaction between levels. This study establishes a hierarchical linear model (HLM) of safety climate, individual safety awareness, and safety behavior to examine the multilevel relationships between them. Data were collected using questionnaire from workers in different teams on the construction site in China. The results indicate that organizational safety climates affect individual safety behavior and safety awareness. In addition, there is a positive correlation between individual safety awareness and safety behavior, and the safety climates have a positive moderating effect on the relationship between them. The final conclusion offers a path for the current practice of safety management in the construction industry.

scholarly journals Preliminary Human Safety Assessment (PHSA) for the Improvement of the Behavioral Aspects of Safety Climate in the Construction Industry

Buildings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Fargnoli ◽  
Mara Lombardi
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Aspects ◽  
Unsafe Behavior ◽  
First Results ◽  
Management Issues

Occupational safety in the construction industry still represents a relevant problem at a global level. In fact, the complexity of working activities in this sector requires a comprehensive approach that goes beyond normative compliance to guarantee safer working conditions. In particular, empirical research on the factors influencing the unsafe behavior of workers needs to be augmented. Thus, the relationship between human factors and safety management issues following a bottom-up approach was investigated. In particular, an easy-to-use procedure that can be used to better address workers’ safety needs augmenting the company’s safety climate and supporting safety management issues was developed. Such an approach, based on the assessment of human reliability factors, was verified in a real case study concerning the users of concrete mixer trucks. The results showed that the majority of human failures were action and retrieval errors, underlining the importance of theoretical and practical training programs as a means to improve safety behavior. In such a context, information and communication activities also resulted beneficially to augment the company’s safety climate. The proposed approach, despite its qualitative nature, allows a clearer understanding of workers’ perceptions of hazards and their risk-taking behavior, providing practical cues to monitor and improve the behavioral aspects of safety climate. Hence, these first results can contribute to augmenting safety knowledge in the construction industry, providing a basis for further investigations on the causalities related to human performances, which are considered a key element in the prevention of accidents.

REVIEW AND ADOPT A TOOL FOR MEASURING SAFETY CLIMATE IN INTERNATIONAL CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ran Gao ◽  
Albert P. C. Chan ◽  
Wahyudi P. Utama ◽  
Hafiz Zahoor
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Construction Companies ◽  
Construction Market ◽  
International Construction ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Construction Safety Management

The construction industry is deemed to be one of the most dangerous industries worldwide due to its special characteristics of production process. Globalization has brought about an increasing number of construction companies involving themselves in the international construction market. Due to involvement of participants from different countries and regions, international construction projects possess complexities from national, organizational and individual perspectives which may affect construction safety management adversely and lead to unsatisfactory safety performance. Safety climate, defined as “a unified set of cognitions regarding the safety aspects of the organization”, is often considered to be a predictor of safety behavior and performance. After conducting a comprehensive review of existing literature related to safety climate measurement in construction sector, this study highlights several conditions for selecting suitable safety climate instruments specific in international construction projects.

scholarly journals Safety in Shipping: Investigating Safety Climate in Norwegian Maritime Workers

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 1844-1848
Author(s):  
Steven C. Mallam ◽  
Jørgen Ernstsen ◽  
Salman Nazir
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Organizational Safety ◽  
Service Staff ◽  
Perceptions Of Safety ◽  
Mediating Factor ◽  
And Training

Working at sea places individuals in an inherently dangerous environment for extended periods, exposing them to unique risks not found in land-based industries. Safety-critical socio-technical systems demand an inherent organizational safety culture for reliable and safe operations. Safety climate acts as a mediating factor between the broader organizational climate and safety behavior of individuals and teams. This paper investigates safety climate of individuals working at sea. Two hundred persons (47.3 yrs ±12.9; 175 males, 25 females) working as seafarers ( n=132) and onboard service staff ( n=68) with Norwegian maritime companies completed an online safety climate questionnaire. Results indicate that maritime workers generally have lower perceptions of safety within their organizations in comparison to other industries. Furthermore, certified seafarers have lower perceptions of safety then onboard service staff, who have lower restrictions to working at sea, and generally less maritime safety education and training.

scholarly journals Analysis of Complexity of Unsafe Behavior in Construction Teams and a Multiagent Simulation

Complexity ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Li ◽  
Xiaofei Lv ◽  
Hongming Zhu ◽  
Zhaohan Sheng
Keyword(s):  
Structural Model ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Management Scenarios ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Safety Awareness ◽  
Unsafe Behavior ◽  
Unsafe Behaviors ◽  
Incentive Strategies ◽  
Average Distribution ◽  
Awareness Level

The processes in construction are more likely than others to breed unsafe behaviors, and the consequences of these actions can be serious. This paper first reviews the research status on unsafe behavior in construction teams. It then analyzes the complex mechanisms that lead to unsafe behavior and constructs a three-layer structural model based on agent-based modeling (ABM) technology. This modeling deals with complexity and elaborates on key points and potential research ideas in the study of unsafe behavior in construction teams. Using the ABM method, the effects of different incentive strategies on the safe behavior of construction teams under different management scenarios were studied. The results showed that when members have a fair perception of the situation, the effect of the excess performance reward distribution, according to the member’s safety awareness level, is better than the average distribution effect. This is the case whether the member’s safety behavior level is positively or negatively related to the member’s safety awareness level. This study proves the feasibility, validity, and universality of the three-layer structural model. It also reaches certain management conclusions and ideas for further development. The purpose of this paper is to provide a reference for research on the containment and prevention of unsafe behavior in construction teams.

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 Conceptual Model of Multi-Spectra Perceptions for Enhancing the Safety Climate in Construction Workplaces

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 347
Author(s):  
Sungjin Kim ◽  
Siyuan Song ◽  
Donghoon Lee ◽  
Daeyoung Kim ◽  
Sangsoo Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Commercial Building ◽  
Work Organizations ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Organizational Safety ◽  
Work Pressure ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
Perception Model ◽  
Job Site ◽  
Significant Factors

Construction safety climates can reflect organizational safety behavior and commitment, employees’ safety perceptions and attitudes, and the supervisory and support environments. Maintaining a healthy safety climate can help prevent workers from fatal accidents and illnesses. To enhance the safety climate and, consequently, improve safety performance at a construction site, it is very important to analyze the elements that affect the safety climate and are significant for different types of construction work organizations. Therefore, the main goal of this study was to develop a multi-spectra perception model to investigate which factors were considered critical from four key perspectives: managers, superintendents, skilled laborers, and general helpers. To achieve this goal, a survey questionnaire was conducted to collect empirical data from one commercial building construction project. Based on a stepwise regression analysis, it was revealed that the most significant factors enhancing the safety climate are: from the managers’ perspective, a combination of improvement in the support environment and reduction in work pressure; for superintendents and skilled laborers, increasing worker competence; and for general laborers, increasing worker involvement. This research contributes to a better understanding of the significant factors and provides a measure for each important role in enhancing the safety climate at a job site.

scholarly journals The Relationship amongst Person-Organization Fit, Safety Consciousness, Safety Climate and Safety Behavior

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferit Olcer ◽  
Cemal Durmuscelebi
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Operations Control ◽  
Unsafe Behaviors ◽  
Control Flight ◽  
Person Organization Fit ◽  
Employee Characteristics

Technological advances have reduced accident rates caused by machine-related errors, accidents that have occurred in individual and organizational errors are still continuing. Safety perceptions, attitudes and beliefs of people and their personality traits emerge safe or unsafe behaviors in the work environment. In addition, high congruence of employee characteristics and organizational characteristics supports the creation of a safe working environment. The purposes of this study were to examine the effect of airline employees’ person-organization fit, and safety consciousness on safety behavior and investigate the mediation role of safety climate on these effects. The data collected from planning, operations control, flight safety and quality employees of an airline operating in Turkey (N=178). Data were analyzed with the SPSS 22.0 program and factor, correlation and regression analyzes were performed to identify interrelationships with descriptive statistics. Findings show that person-organization fit, and safety consciousness had positive effects on safety climate and safety behavior; safety climate had full mediation role in the effect of person-organization fit on safety behavior; and had a partial mediation role in the effect of safety consciousness on safety behavior.

A systematic review of construction workers’ health and safety research in India

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vigneshkumar Chellappa ◽  
Vasundhara Srivastava ◽  
Urmi Ravindra Salve
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Science Mapping ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mapping Approach ◽  
Safety Research ◽  
And Behavior

Purpose Construction workers’ health and safety (CWHS) research in India has not gained much attention among researchers. This study aims to review articles related to CWHS research in India using a science mapping approach. Design/methodology/approach A total number of 64 journal articles published between 2004 and 2019 were extracted from the Scopus database using keywords including “construction safety,” “occupational health,” “ergonomics in construction,” etc. VOSviewer software was used to examine the influential keywords, documents, sources and authors in the field of CWHS. Findings The study found that most of the current work focuses on safety management, safety climate, safety performance, musculoskeletal disorders and behavior-based safety. The result indicates no theoretical basis for the theories and learning methods for the existing studies. Practical implications The findings open up a research gap that researchers explore to enhance workers’ health and safety within the Indian construction environment. Originality/value The paper is the first article to provide a better understanding of current research in the field of CWHS in India by analyzing its growth through the science mapping approach.

Multilevel Models in the Explanation of the Relationship between Safety Climate and Safe Behavior

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Cheyne ◽  
José M. Tomás ◽  
Amparo Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Multilevel Models ◽  
Employee Attitudes ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Organizational Safety ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Worker Engagement ◽  
Transportation Organization

AbstractThis study examines the relationships between components of organizational safety climate, including employee attitudes to organizational safety issues; perceptions of the physical working environment, and evaluations of worker engagement with safety issues; and relates these to self-reported levels of safety behavior. It attempts to explore the relationships between these variables in 1189 workers across 78 work groups in a large transportation organization. Evaluations of safety climate, the working environment and worker engagement, as well as safe behaviors, were collected using a self report questionnaire. The multilevel analysis showed that both levels of evaluation (the work group and the individual), and some cross-level interactions, were significant in explaining safe behaviors. Analyses revealed that a number of variables, at both levels, were associated with worker engagement and safe behaviors. The results suggest that, while individual evaluations of safety issues are important, there is also a role for the fostering of collective safety climates in encouraging safe behaviors and therefore reducing accidents.

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