Safety climate factors, group differences and safety behaviour in road construction

Glendon, A. Ian; Litherland, DK

doi:10.1016/s0925-7535(01)00006-6

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“…This research uses activity observation or activity sampling (Glendon & Litherland, 2001;Jenkins & Orth, 2003;Cooper & Phillips, 2004;Gouett et al, 2011;Zhang & Fang, 2013) to continuously collect data of safe behaviors and conditions, as well as unsafe behaviors and conditions on construction sites for analysis and decision-making. The activity observation (or activity analysis) results can be used to set and implement improvement targets, and then provide continuous feedback so that construction workers can adjust their performance accordingly.…”

Section: Motivation and Research Objectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Step 6  Review  Review performance of process management system  Review the scope of the indicators  Review the tolerances Glendon and Litherland (2001) used a behavior sampling technique to evaluate the safety performance of each construction crew. The observer counted the safe and unsafe key behaviors, then the percentage of safe behavior was calculated.…”

Section: Measurement Of Safety Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This method of safety measurement involves observing samples of behavior at random intervals to determine safe performance. Percentage of safety behavior was calculated (Glendon &Litherland, 2001). The behaviors observed in the study are given in Table 2.2.…”

Section: Human Behavioral Observationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The behaviors observed in the study are given in Table 2.2. (Glendon & Litherland, 2001) Personal protective Equipment 1. Safety helmets are to be worn in the vicinity of either a bridge site, when working with any plant in the crane mode, or when working in trenches.…”

Section: Human Behavioral Observationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Safety Activity Analysis Framework to Evaluate Safety Performance in Construction

Awolusi

2017

J. Constr. Eng. Manage.

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The construction work environment remains one of the most hazardous worldwide. As a result of dangerous working environments, construction workers often face safety and health risks throughout the construction process. However, it is worth noting that an emphasis on construction safety has increased mainly in the aspect of safety performance, and efforts are required to not only monitor but also seek to improve safety performance. The main objective of this research is to assess safety performance on construction sites using safety activity analysis technique. A safety activity analysis framework as well as a safety activity analysis tool are developed to facilitate the collection and analysis of the safety activity data for continuous evaluation of safety performance.Additionally, a case study is carried out to implement the framework and tool on an active construction project. Activity observation is used to continuously collect data of safe behaviors and conditions, along with unsafe behaviors and conditions on construction sites for analysis and decision making. It is expected that the observation results can be used to set improvement targets and provide continuous feedback so that construction workers can adjust their performance accordingly. The findings of the case study show that the safety index of the construction site ranged from 37.0% to 62.8% with an average of 53.8%. Results obtained also indicate that the stage of a construction process can affect the safety performance of a project. It was recommended that well-informed decisions and far-reaching efforts have to be made to ensure the safety index is brought as close as possible to 100% by reducing the unsafe behaviors and conditions on the construction site.iii

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Section: Motivation and Research Objectivesmentioning

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Section: Measurement Of Safety Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Human Behavioral Observationmentioning

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Section: Human Behavioral Observationmentioning

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Safety Activity Analysis Framework to Evaluate Safety Performance in Construction

Awolusi

2017

J. Constr. Eng. Manage.

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“…using recall rates for consumer products (White & Pomponi, 2003) or accident and incident rates in the airline industry (Rose, 1990). Measuring product safety performance is difficult because objective accident data are insufficiently sensitive, of dubious accuracy, retrospective, ignore risk exposure (Glendon & Litherland, 2001), and tend to be very unstable (DeJoy et al, 2004;Havold, 2005). …”

Section: Product Safety Performancementioning

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The impact of organizational culture on Concurrent Engineering, Design-for-Safety, and product safety performance

Zhu

Zedtwitz

Assimakopoulos

et al. 2016

International Journal of Production Economics

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Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Design-for-Safety (DFS), and product safety performance. We propose that the underlying assumption of safety first affects the espoused values (group level product safety culture at NPD) and artefacts of organizational culture (Concurrent Engineering and Design-for-Safety); espoused value influences artefacts; and artefacts impact product safety performance. These hypotheses are tested by structural analyses of 255 survey responses collected from 126 firms in the juvenile product sector. While management commitment to safety, product safety culture, andDesign-for-Safety are significant product safety predictors, as expected, Concurrent Engineering has no significant direct effect on product safety. We discuss the implications of these findings for the field of product safety.

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Occupational Health and Safety Management

Zimolong

Elke

2006

Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics

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Safety climate factors, group differences and safety behaviour in road construction

Cited by 409 publications

References 37 publications

Safety Activity Analysis Framework to Evaluate Safety Performance in Construction

Safety Activity Analysis Framework to Evaluate Safety Performance in Construction

The impact of organizational culture on Concurrent Engineering, Design-for-Safety, and product safety performance

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