Demographic influences on safety consciousness and safety citizenship behavior of construction workers

Meng, Xiangcheng; Chan, Alan H. S.

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2020.104835

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“…Among them, the new generation of construction workers (NGCWs) are gradually drawing more and more attention in recent years [ 10 , 11 ]. Prior literature has revealed the unique roles of demographic factors like age and seniority in this domain, and cohort studies are specific to the group of young workers [ 12 , 13 , 14 ]. The previous research shows that compared with the older workers, young workers have a lower awareness of safety [ 13 ], higher occupational injury rates [ 15 ], and lower safety voice intentions [ 16 ].…”

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Influencing Mechanism of Job Satisfaction on Safety Behavior of New Generation of Construction Workers Based on Chinese Context: The Mediating Roles of Work Engagement and Safety Knowledge Sharing

Zhu

Zhang

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China’s construction industry developed rapidly and safety production has become a vital issue. Improving the safety behavior of construction workers is an important measure to effectively decrease construction safety accidents. At present, a New Generation of Construction Workers (NGCWs) born after 1980 has gradually become the main force of construction companies in China and the special group characteristics coming from the intergenerational difference may make them behave differently in safety-related activities, therefore, it is very important to study how to promote their safety behavior. This paper aimed to explore the influencing mechanism of job satisfaction on the safety behavior of NGCWs and examine the mediating role of safety knowledge sharing and work engagement. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling analysis were applied to test the theoretical model. Empirical research results indicated that job satisfaction can effectively promote safety behavior through safety knowledge sharing and work engagement. Safety knowledge sharing plays a complete mediating role between job satisfaction and safety compliance behavior, as well as between job satisfaction and safety participation behavior. Moreover, work engagement plays a complete mediating role between job satisfaction and safety participation behavior, which can provide valuable management references for China’s construction companies to strengthen their safety behavior.

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Influencing Mechanism of Job Satisfaction on Safety Behavior of New Generation of Construction Workers Based on Chinese Context: The Mediating Roles of Work Engagement and Safety Knowledge Sharing

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“…The SC and SCB of Hong Kong workers were assumed to be higher than that of Mainland workers due to the higher level of education and technology acceptance during the rapid city development in recent years (Development Bureau of HKSAR, 2018). According to Meng and Chan (2020), the demographic in uence on SC and SCB of Mainland workers was clari ed by verifying the negative effect of gender and the positive effects of education level and age. Therefore, the trend of demographic in uence in Hong Kong was hypothesized to be identical with Mainland China due to their similar cultural background of East Asia (Yeung, 2019).…”

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“…To address this issue, scholars have considered safety citizenship behavior (SCB) and safety consciousness (SC) as noteworthy topics for investigation of personnel safety (Didla et al, 2009;Prussia et al 2018;Oxley et al, 2018). Meng et al (2019) and Meng and Chan (2020) further expanded the research of SC and SCB theories by developing the scale measurements and clarifying the corresponding demographic in uence in Mainland China. However, the demographic in uence on these constructs remain unknown in Hong Kong, let alone the comparison between Hong Kong and Mainland China.…”

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Cross-Regional Research in Demographic Impact on Safety Consciousness and Safety Citizenship Behavior of Construction Workers: A Comparative Study between Mainland China and Hong Kong

Meng¹,

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2020

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Background: The construction industry has rapidly developed with the continuous prosperity in Hong Kong and Mainland China, though accidents still occur with unacceptable frequency and severity. For promoting the safety issue of workers in construction industry, safety citizenship behavior (SCB) and safety consciousness (SC) were considered two influential constructs and further studied with integration of sociodemographic theories by scholars. However, no study has compared the SC and SCB of construction workers in terms of the demographic influence between Mainland China and Hong Kong. Methods: To fill this research gap, this study investigated the territorial difference between these two regions by conducting a cross-sectional questionnaire survey with recruitment of 253 Mainland construction workers and 256 Hong Kong construction workers. Results: Significant similarities and differences of SC and SCB performance were revealed in terms of the workers with different genders, education levels, weekly working hours, and ages. Conclusions: This study provides insights into the comparison of demographic influence on SC and SCB of construction workers between Hong Kong and Mainland China, which is unique as it can yield useful managerial knowledge relevant to the personal safety of targeted groups of construction workers with particular demographic characteristic in both regions and contribute the implementation of safety interventions in line with the specific distinction in territorial aspect.

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“…The construction industry contributes a valuable amount to the economy of any country, however, it is still badly affected by several issues such as cost overrun [ 1 , 2 ], time overrun [ 3 , 4 , 5 ], price fluctuation due to inflation [ 6 , 7 , 8 ], and most importantly due to poor safety performance [ 9 ]. Despite these severe issues, a project gets completed, but is not declared successful because the project failed to achieve the projects’ objectives [ 10 , 11 ].…”

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Barriers of Occupational Safety Implementation in Infrastructure Projects: Gaza Strip Case

Aisheh

Tayeh

Alaloul

et al. 2021

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Infrastructure projects are the foundation for essential public services and have an influential position in societal development. Although the role of infrastructure projects is substantial, they can involve complexities and safety issues that lead to an unsafe environment, and which impacts the project key stakeholders. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the barriers to implementing occupational safety in infrastructure projects in the Gaza Strip, which cause serious threats and reduce project performance. To evaluate the barriers, 39 items were highlighted and modified as per the construction context and environment, and which later were distributed in the form of a questionnaire, to get feedback from consultants and contractors. The analysis shows that in the safety policy barriers group, consultants and contractors both ranked the item “a contractor committed to an occupational safety program is not rewarded” first. In the management barriers group, consultants and contractors both ranked the item “safety engineer does not have significant powers, such as stopping work when needed” in the first place. In the behavior and culture barriers group, consultants and contractors both ranked the item “workers who are not committed to occupational safety are not excluded” in the first place. Overall, both consultants and contractors shared the same viewpoint in classifying the barriers in the working environment. The outcome of this study is beneficial for Palestinian construction industry policymakers, so they can monitor the highlighted barriers in on-going infrastructure projects and can modify the safety guidelines accordingly.

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Demographic influences on safety consciousness and safety citizenship behavior of construction workers

Cited by 57 publications

References 81 publications

Influencing Mechanism of Job Satisfaction on Safety Behavior of New Generation of Construction Workers Based on Chinese Context: The Mediating Roles of Work Engagement and Safety Knowledge Sharing

Influencing Mechanism of Job Satisfaction on Safety Behavior of New Generation of Construction Workers Based on Chinese Context: The Mediating Roles of Work Engagement and Safety Knowledge Sharing

Cross-Regional Research in Demographic Impact on Safety Consciousness and Safety Citizenship Behavior of Construction Workers: A Comparative Study between Mainland China and Hong Kong

Barriers of Occupational Safety Implementation in Infrastructure Projects: Gaza Strip Case

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