Multilevel Safety Climate and Safety Performance in the Construction Industry: Development and Validation of a Top-Down Mechanism

Gao, Ran; Chan, Albert P.C.; Utama, Wahyudi P.; Zahoor, Hafız

doi:10.3390/ijerph13111100

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“…In fact, as per Llory [12], a human-centered approach is needed, since "safety is, above all, behavioral and individual". In particular, the analysis of the perception of unsafe conditions and actions plays an important role for the implementation of a safety system in construction projects [13], while the augmentation of safety behavior can directly influence the safety climate and the safety performances of workers [14]. Safety climate can be intended as the workers' perception of the safety management issues implemented by the company [15], and multiple factors contribute to its improvement [16].…”

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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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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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“…One stream of efforts addresses workers "not knowing" work-associated risks and aims to improve safety training [5] and teach them what to do to accomplish their job safety. Another stream of research addresses workers "not willing to perform safely" [6], which could be caused by a series of factors at the individual, group, and organizational levels [7]. Individually, "not willing to perform safely" can be considered as a decision-making process [8] and can be explained with psychological theories because they address how the mind, perceptions, and beliefs influence safety behaviour.…”

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Impact of Attitudinal Ambivalence on Safety Behaviour in Construction

Zou

Luo

2018

Advances in Civil Engineering

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Unsafe acts have been identified as a major factor of construction accidents. e eory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) has been used to explain the factors influencing unsafe behaviour, by establishing the relationship between attitude, intention, and behaviour. However, the existing research on the relationship between safety attitude and safety behaviour could not fully explain the decisionmaking process of unsafe acts, in that the relationship could be mediated by attitudinal ambivalence, which is caused by conflicting information sources and the social network pressure of peer workers. is research examined whether attitudinal ambivalence was a mediating factor, either fully or partially, in the relationship between safety attitude and safety behaviour by expanding the TPB model. Data were collected from questionnaire survey of 228 construction workers. e results showed that attitudinal ambivalence existed as a partial mediating factor in the relationship between safety attitude and safety behaviour. is paper contributed to the body of knowledge on safety management by recognizing the role of attitudinal ambivalence in construction workers and integrated it into the TPB model. is research will be helpful in providing greater understanding of the dynamic and complex decision-making process of unsafe behaviour given multiple information sources and conflicting environments.

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“…A positive and constructive safety climate is created when appropriate interactions between project partners and project team members are created, to support safety at the front-end of the project. Results of research conducted by Gao et al [29] show that organizational safety climate is dependent on supervisor safety climate and coworker safety climate. Additionally, they believe that "a positive safety culture should be established both at the organizational level and the group level.…”

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A Conceptual Model for a Safety-Based Theory of Lean Construction

2019

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The construction industry is one of the most fatal industries, so it is important to pay more attention to safety solutions. Even though work-related accidents are known as a major waste in construction projects, little attention has been paid so far to incorporating safety into the lean construction framework. In this research, lean construction theory is reviewed through the lens of safety. That being so, the identified challenges in previous research on improving safety in construction projects are categorized, and those related to the concept of lean project delivery are introduced. Then, the principles of the lean construction framework are explained, and the relevant changes for incorporating safety into the framework are introduced and discussed. The proposed model includes a new approach to the Transformation-Flow-Value framework, in order to pay particular attention to safety in construction projects as one of the factors affecting the success of projects, and achieving optimal value for stakeholders. It is expected that this hybrid model would further enrich the lean construction framework. The careful attention of project executives to this model may improve the safety situation in construction projects. The conceptual model presented in this study can be used in the decision making process for project managers as well as research into optimization of safety costs, and eliminating waste (including models for optimizing the movement of machinery, controlling and reducing rework, and designing the site layout).

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Multilevel Safety Climate and Safety Performance in the Construction Industry: Development and Validation of a Top-Down Mechanism

Cited by 50 publications

References 48 publications

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

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

Impact of Attitudinal Ambivalence on Safety Behaviour in Construction

A Conceptual Model for a Safety-Based Theory of Lean Construction

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