Empirical Investigation of Factors Contributing to the Psychological Safety Climate on Construction Sites

Abstract

Employees' safety climate perceptions dictate their safety behavior, as individuals act based on their perceptions of reality. Extensive empirical research in applied psychology confirmed this relationship. However, rare efforts have been made to investigate the contributing factors to a favorable safety climate in the construction research. As an initial effort to address the knowledge gap, this paper examines contributing factors to psychological safety climate, an operationalization of safety climate at the individual level and hence the basic element of safety climate at higher levels. A multi-perspective framework of psychological safety climate contributors is estimated by the structural equation modeling technique using individual questionnaire responses from a random sample of construction project personnel. The results inform management of three routes to psychological safety climate: client's proactive involvement in safety management; a workforce-friendly workplace created by the project team;

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