National culture and safe work behaviour of construction workers in Pakistan

Mohamed, Sherif Ali Mohtady; Ali, Tauha Hussain; Tam, Wing-ming

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2008.01.003

Cited by 142 publications

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“…Mohamed et al found that workers' attitudes towards safety responsibilities and their risk perceptions explained their intentional behaviour [27]. Some of the research had identified that safety attitude could be under conflicting influencing factors and it is possible to impact the relationship between attitude and behaviour.…”

Section: Tpb and Construction Safety Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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Section: Tpb and Construction Safety Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of Attitudinal Ambivalence on Safety Behaviour in Construction

Zou

Luo

2018

Advances in Civil Engineering

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“…The use of unsafe working platforms also may put workers at risk when the equipment is not properly used, maintained or stored [14]. Construction worker's safety attitude is influence by their understanding and realizing of risk, management, safety rules and the working procedures [15]. The unsafe actions are include do not follow the standard safety procedures, constructing barbarously and deciding to proceed work in an unsafe conditions.…”

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Accidents Preventive Practice for High-Rise Construction

Goh

Omar

et al. 2016

MATEC Web of Conferences

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Abstract. The demand of high-rise projects continues to grow due to the reducing of usable land area in Klang Valley, Malaysia. The rapidly development of high-rise projects has leaded to the rise of fatalities and accidents. An accident that happened in a construction site can cause serious physical injury. The accidents such as people falling from height and struck by falling object were the most frequent accidents happened in Malaysian construction industry. The continuous growth of high-rise buildings indicates that there is a need of an effective safety and health management. Hence, this research aims to identify the causes of accidents and the ways to prevent accidents that occur at high-rise building construction site. Qualitative method was employed in this research. Interview surveying with safety officers who are involved in highrise building project in Kuala Lumpur were conducted in this research. Accidents were caused by man-made factors, environment factors or machinery factors. The accidents prevention methods were provide sufficient Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), have a good housekeeping, execute safety inspection, provide safety training and execute accidents investigation. In the meanwhile, interviewees have suggested the new prevention methods that were develop a proper site layout planning and de-merit and merit system among subcontractors, suppliers and even employees regarding safety at workplace matters. This research helps in explaining the causes of accidents and identifying area where prevention action should be implemented, so that workers and top management will increase awareness in preventing site accidents.

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“…A study comparing Filipino and Norwegian seafaring professionals found that national culture seems to impact on the probability of occupational accidents 14 . A study on Pakistani construction workers based on Hofstede's theory showed that there is a strong correlation between cultural dimensions, safe work behaviour and risk perception which could be explained by attitudes 15 .…”

Section: Risk and Safetymentioning

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Occupational safety in a globalized construction industry: a study on Polish workers in Norway*

Wasilkiewicz

Albrechtsen

Antonsen

2016

Policy and Practice in Health and Safety

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Polish workers are the largest group of migrant workers in Norway and are particularly well represented in the construction industry. According to several studies, migrant workers are more prone to occupational accidents than native workers are. This difference is often attributed to poor communication and lack of linguistic skills. We explored factors affecting occupational safety related to migrant workers with an emphasis on communication, culture and language through interviews with Polish and Norwegian workers. The study shows that the construction industry in Norway mainly focuses on language as an issue. Culture is seen as a contributing factor, but is somewhat neglected. Fewer measures to cope with challenges related to migrant workers were found for cultural issues as compared to linguistic. However, the study shows that cultural aspects are at least as important. This gives implications for safety management in the construction industry. This paper suggests considering cultural aspects more in safety management related to migrant workers to achieve the desired safety focus at construction sites.

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National culture and safe work behaviour of construction workers in Pakistan

Cited by 142 publications

References 6 publications

Impact of Attitudinal Ambivalence on Safety Behaviour in Construction

Impact of Attitudinal Ambivalence on Safety Behaviour in Construction

Accidents Preventive Practice for High-Rise Construction

Occupational safety in a globalized construction industry: a study on Polish workers in Norway*

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