Health and safety training in a sample of open-shop construction companies

Goldenhar, Linda M.; Moran, Stacey Kohler; Colligan, Michael J.

doi:10.1016/s0022-4375(01)00045-7

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“…Proper training to reduce gaps in safety knowledge and tailored to the construction sector can increase worker awareness, safety communication, and selfprotective work practices, while reducing lost workdays. 59,66,67 The training dimension also assessed the extent to which training was appropriate to the workers' English proficiency and education level. Our findings are in line with previous work showing Hispanic construction workers to be at risk of experiencing inadequate safety training.…”

Section: Safety Climate Scale and Modelmentioning

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Results of a community-based survey of construction safety climate for Hispanic workers

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Roelofs

2015

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

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Background: Hispanic construction workers experience high rates of occupational injury, likely influenced by individual, organizational, and social factors. Objectives: To characterize the safety climate of Hispanic construction workers using worker, contractor, and supervisor perceptions of the workplace. Methods: We developed a 40-item interviewer-assisted survey with six safety climate dimensions and administered it in Spanish and English to construction workers, contractors, and supervisors. A safety climate model, comparing responses and assessing contributing factors was created based on survey responses. Results: While contractors and construction supervisors' (n5128) scores were higher, all respondents shared a negative perception of safety climate. Construction workers had statistically significantly lower safety climate scores compared to supervisors and contractors (30.6 vs 46.5%, P,0.05). Safety climate scores were not associated with English language ability or years lived in the United States. Conclusions: We found that Hispanic construction workers in this study experienced a poor safety climate. The Hispanic construction safety climate model we propose can serve as a framework to guide organizational safety interventions and evaluate safety climate improvements.

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Section: Safety Climate Scale and Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Results of a community-based survey of construction safety climate for Hispanic workers

Marín

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Roelofs

2015

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

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“…The lack of training for construction workers is a problem that has been studied by various authors (Goldenhar et al 2001, O'Connor et al 2005, Brunette, 2005. Measurements of training in accident prevention are an effective tool for determining worker awareness of health and safety issues.…”

Section: Training In Health and Safetymentioning

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Proposed Indicators of Prevention Through Design in Construction Projects

López-Arquillos¹,

Rubio-Romero²

2015

Revista de la Construcción

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The construction industry has a high accident rate worldwide. Because of these negative figures, there are numerous studies by prestigious authors about how to measure the levels of safety and health in construction through indicators. These indicators can be classified based on the following categories: a) Accidents recorded b) Risk assessment, c) Workload, d) Health and safety training, e) Perception of safety and health and f) Health and safety management. However, despite the importance of indicators as a preventive tool, no studies have been found regarding the most appropriate indicators to measure the degree of implementation of the concept of Prevention through Design in civil engineering construction projects. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the main existing indicators to quantify the levels of safety and health in construction, and based on this analysis to propose and validate indicators to measure the Prevention through Design in civil engineering projects, using the staticized groups methodology. The information provided by the new proposed indicators is useful for improving safety levels in construction companies.

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“…Goldenhar et al (2001) examined safety training in the construction sector and found that 37 % of the 45 companies examined did not quantitatively evaluate their training. Furthermore, the evaluation work undertaken by the remaining companies was not comprehensive.…”

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The Influences of Socialization and Prestart Training on New Employee Safety

Burt

2015

New Employee Safety

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Individuals that undertake training can potentially not only learn from the training, but also make assumptions that other employees are learning, have learnt, or will learn from the same training. Given the fact that training does not always deliver the desired outcome, and there will be large individual differences in training outcomes, a general assumption that training will achieve its objectives is very risky. That is,

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Health and safety training in a sample of open-shop construction companies

Cited by 82 publications

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Results of a community-based survey of construction safety climate for Hispanic workers

Results of a community-based survey of construction safety climate for Hispanic workers

Proposed Indicators of Prevention Through Design in Construction Projects

The Influences of Socialization and Prestart Training on New Employee Safety

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