Influence of Person-Organizational Fit on Construction Safety Climate

Liao, Pin‐Chao; Lei, Guangpu; Xue, Jia-Wei; Fang, Dongping

doi:10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000257

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“…According to Campbell's performance model (Campbell et al 1993), performance should concern the task proficiency of CWs (e.g., completion of the task in time, and job quality), the interrelationships between CWs and their co-workers (i.e., CWs need to work together as a team for completing complicated construction tasks), and their commitment to their organizations (e.g., related to the turnover rate, and shortage of manpower). In addition, safety is always one project objective, so CWs' safety performance should also be taken into account (Fung et al 2005;Liao et al 2015).…”

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Focus Group Study to Explore Critical Factors for Managing Stress of Construction Workers

Liang

Leung

Cooper

2018

J. Constr. Eng. Manage.

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Construction workers (CWs) are directly responsible for the success of any construction project. However, the construction industry is stressful, which may significantly affect CWs' performance and safety at work. It is possible to prevent CWs experiencing unmanageable stress and the associated negative consequences, if the critical factors for managing their stress were known. Yet very few studies have been conducted to explore these critical stress management factors for them. With consideration of their unique work characteristics and environment, current study set out to fill this research gap through exploration of CWs' coping behaviors, stress symptoms and performance. Focus group studies were conducted to collect qualitative data from skilled CWs, general CWs, and supervisors of CWs. The study explored 15 coping behaviors (categorized as either problem-based or emotion-based), five emotional and 11 physical stress symptoms, and five indicators of CWs' performance and safety. The principal findings include: CWs often not only experience physical stress symptoms, but also suffer from emotional stress symptoms; and unlike the managerial staffs, CWs usually adopt more emotion-based than problem-based coping behaviors (10 types and five types, respectively). A propositional model was proposed and validated by a short questionnaire survey study. Practical recommendations are made for promoting effective stress management and improving project management on CWs. The research limitations are discussed and suggestions for future research are made. This paper is the first attempt to explore CWs' coping behaviors, specific stress symptoms, and performance, which forms a basis for a future large-scale study.

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Section: Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Focus Group Study to Explore Critical Factors for Managing Stress of Construction Workers

Liang

Leung

Cooper

2018

J. Constr. Eng. Manage.

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“…Consequently, an improvement of safety performances in terms of human factors can positively influence the workers' concerns on safety issues in a working environment [18]. Accordingly, Liao et al [19], analyzing several construction case studies at the project level, put forward the close relationship between safety climate and human factors. This aspect was also highlighted by Glendon and Stanton [20], who advised safety managers to consider the analysis of human error to better understand human interaction with working tasks, augmenting the safety climate by means of a bottom-up approach.…”

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Preliminary Human Safety Assessment (PHSA) for the Improvement of the Behavioral Aspects of Safety Climate in the Construction Industry

Fargnoli

Lombardi

2019

Buildings

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Occupational safety in the construction industry still represents a relevant problem at a global level. In fact, the complexity of working activities in this sector requires a comprehensive approach that goes beyond normative compliance to guarantee safer working conditions. In particular, empirical research on the factors influencing the unsafe behavior of workers needs to be augmented. Thus, the relationship between human factors and safety management issues following a bottom-up approach was investigated. In particular, an easy-to-use procedure that can be used to better address workers’ safety needs augmenting the company’s safety climate and supporting safety management issues was developed. Such an approach, based on the assessment of human reliability factors, was verified in a real case study concerning the users of concrete mixer trucks. The results showed that the majority of human failures were action and retrieval errors, underlining the importance of theoretical and practical training programs as a means to improve safety behavior. In such a context, information and communication activities also resulted beneficially to augment the company’s safety climate. The proposed approach, despite its qualitative nature, allows a clearer understanding of workers’ perceptions of hazards and their risk-taking behavior, providing practical cues to monitor and improve the behavioral aspects of safety climate. Hence, these first results can contribute to augmenting safety knowledge in the construction industry, providing a basis for further investigations on the causalities related to human performances, which are considered a key element in the prevention of accidents.

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“…Within the GF model, it is necessary to consider three indicators: measure of absolute fit, measure of increased fit and measure of decreased fit (Tab. 3) [17,13,19] Due to the absolute correspondence of the models, the indicators that can be applied in an incompetent strategic analysis are GFI (goodness-of-fit index) and the index of corresponding values. In GFI, the higher the value, the higher the correspondence.…”

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Health Behaviours in Scaffold Use Risk Assessment Model – SURAM

Bojar¹,

Silveira²,

Rebelo³

et al. 2019

Ann Agric Environ Med.

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Introduction. Problems concerning occupational safety and health are commonly found in the construction industry, including falling materials, tools or people from a height, stepping on objects, and injuries caused by hand tools. An important factor in occupational safety in the construction industry is the use of scaffolds. All scaffolds used in construction, renovation, repair (including isolating, painting and decorating) and demolition, should be erected, maintained and dismantledin accordance with safety procedures. Therefore, it is crucial to deal with the safety of scaffolds and risk assessment in the construction industry; thus, the way of undertaking the assessment and the liability of assessment seems to be essential for professionals. However, it has been found that those professionals are prone to rely heavily on their own experience and knowledge in decision-making regarding risk assessment. Materials and method. The Scaffold Use Risk Assessment Model (SURAM) has been developed for assessing risk levels at various stages of the construction process in various work trades. The SURAM is the result of a research project carried out at 60 construction sites in Poland and Portugal where 504 observations have been completed including both harmful physical and chemical factors, stress level, workers' habits, as well as a hundreds ex-post reconstruction of construction accidents scenarios. Results. It was found that the workers' Health Behaviour Index (HBI) seems to be a more direct predictor for development of the unsafe chain of events leading to an accident than the workload, and concentration of harmful factors at the workplace. Conclusions. The developed HBI module of SURAM seems to be beneficial for predicting high-risk construction activities, and thus preventing the occurrence of accidents, based on a set of historical accident data.

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Influence of Person-Organizational Fit on Construction Safety Climate

Cited by 43 publications

References 50 publications

Focus Group Study to Explore Critical Factors for Managing Stress of Construction Workers

Focus Group Study to Explore Critical Factors for Managing Stress of Construction Workers

Preliminary Human Safety Assessment (PHSA) for the Improvement of the Behavioral Aspects of Safety Climate in the Construction Industry

Health Behaviours in Scaffold Use Risk Assessment Model – SURAM

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