Effects of Safety Climate and Safety Behavior on Safety Outcomes between Supervisors and Construction Workers

He, Changquan; McCabe, Brenda; Jia, Guozhu; Sun, Jessie

doi:10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0001735

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“…This can be accomplished by providing specialized safety supervision and guidance through appointing competent safety personnel for construction site auditing and inspection, as well as offering continued safety guidance. Supervisors have significantly higher safety climate perception compared to workers [ 96 ]. They conduct a significant role in providing workers with needed safety support through ongoing interaction, such as demonstrating how to perform tasks safely as well as guaranteeing that rewards are provided for accomplishing safety targets on site [ 97 ].…”

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“…They conduct a significant role in providing workers with needed safety support through ongoing interaction, such as demonstrating how to perform tasks safely as well as guaranteeing that rewards are provided for accomplishing safety targets on site [ 97 ]. Due to work pressure and higher standard of safety performance, supervisors are more subjected to psychological stress than workers [ 96 ]. Automatic computer vision-based techniques can assist supervisors in their daily tasks and reduce the amount of stress that they face.…”

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

Mosly

Makki

2020

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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.

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

Mosly

Makki

2020

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“…In addition, individual perceptions or expectations of workplace safety, namely the psychological climate [ 34 ] and psychological contract [ 35 , 36 ] also have a positive impact on the implementation of the SB. From the perspective of a distal context, leadership and safety climate are main factors in in previous literature [ 23 , 37 , 38 ]. As workers are profound and frequently interactive personnel, the supervision behavior of supervisors has both direct and indirect influences on workers’ SB [ 1 ].…”

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“…Common values and customs, namely group norms, play an important role in shaping the SB of individual workers [ 6 ]. He et al [ 37 ] summarized three ways in which safety climate affects the SB of construction workers: (1) directly; (2) through mediating variables, such as stress, safety knowledge, motivation, and intention; and (3) through moderating variables, such as project identity, site layout, and work arrangement.…”

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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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IJERPH

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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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“…erefore, identifying the potential contributing factors to WUBs and then designing potent programs to cultivate workers' safety behavior are leading research topics in construction safety management [15][16][17]. Unsafe behaviors are not only the results of response process influenced by wide ranges of social, organizational, and management factors [18][19][20][21], but also the results of individuals' decision-making processes affected by self's psychological status or features [15,[22][23][24][25]. Cognitive biases (CBs) are such a type of psychological factors that critically influence individuals' decision-making process of unsafe behaviors [25][26][27].…”

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Tunnel Construction Workers’ Cognitive Biases and Unsafe Behaviors: The Mediating Effects of Risk Perceptions

Chen

Zhao

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Advances in Civil Engineering

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The poor safety performance of the construction industry is a global concern. Workers’ unsafe behaviors (WUBs) are viewed as critical causes of construction accidents. Thus, it has been a leading research topic to identify antecedents of WUBs and establish reliable models to explain WUBs. Cognitive biases (CBs) are salient antecedents of WUBs. However, the relationships between CBs and WUBs are not further explored in construction safety management. As such, this study selected three prevalent CBs, i.e., availability bias (AB), confirmation bias (FB), and overconfidence, and investigated the relationships between the three CBs and WUBs and the functions of RPs in these relationships among tunnel construction workers. We established six multiple regression models. Research results show that CBs can directly influence RPs and WUBs, RPs are antecedents of WUBs, and the mediating effect of RPs on the relationships between CBs and WUBs is salient. In detail, AB and FB explain more ERP and overconfidence explains more BRP. AB and FB indirectly influence more WUBs through ERP, while overconfidence indirectly affects more WUBs through BRP. The study provides a novel theoretical paradigm for conceptualizing CBs and their relationships with RPs and WUBs. The research results can also guide managers to take debiasing measures to decrease workers’ unsafe behaviors on the construction site.

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Effects of Safety Climate and Safety Behavior on Safety Outcomes between Supervisors and Construction Workers

Cited by 101 publications

References 72 publications

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

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

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

Tunnel Construction Workers’ Cognitive Biases and Unsafe Behaviors: The Mediating Effects of Risk Perceptions

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