Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was carried out to develop appropriate questionnaire items as research instruments. This study has developed and certified the instruments of safety management commitment and safety administration through the EFA study. It is applied in the context of occupational safety and health management (OSH) of construction industry. This study was divided into two constructs namely Safety Management Commitment (SMC) and Safety Administration (SA) to measure safety attitude. Safety administration construct was measured by safety programs and safety monitoring. Whereas, safety management commitment construct was measured by safety planning and safety management. This study was conducted to evaluate the contractor’s safety management attitude to the safety culture at the construction site. About 100 respondents were selected through simple random sampling to fill out the survey. Based on the reliability test, this study has set an instrument consist of eight items to develop two components for the construct of safety management commitment. While, for the construct of safety administration consist of six items for two components. This setting is based on the internal reliability value (Alpha Cronbach) for measurement of the instrument. The procedure is described in detail to carry out an EFA analysis to develop the instrument’s construct of SMC and SA. For the future, researchers can develop a study by applying instruments thoroughly in various fields of research.
Keywords: Safety management commitment, safety administration, occupational safety, construction industry
A safety management attitude is essential to create a safety culture at construction sites. The construction sector was known to have a high risk of site accidents. Then, preventing the risk of accidents requires the implementation of safety culture measures. A safety culture acts as a guide to decrease the risk. This study aims to assess the safety management attitudes toward safety culture at construction sites. A sample of 376 respondents was recruited to complete the questionnaires regarding management commitment, safety procedures, and compliance with safety culture. The SPSS 24.0 and AMOS 24.0 software were used to conduct the data analysis. The findings demonstrated that management commitment, safety procedure, and safety compliance significantly and positively affected safety culture (p-value< 0.05). Thus, adequate implementation of a safety culture was ensured to decrease the accidents at the construction site and achieve zero industrial accidents.
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