Safety first? Production pressures and the implications on safety and health

Smith, Simon

doi:10.1080/01446193.2018.1537501

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“…The concerns raised by the respondents about conflicts between productivity and safety are especially concerning but supports other recent research which has highlighted this problem of competing institutional production and safety logics (see Smith [ 44 ]). According to Crumbley [ 45 ], management commitment to an organization’s OHS program communicates the message that safety is valued as a primary priority, even at the expense of productivity.…”

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“…In Hofstede’s research, Indonesia is classified as a collectivist culture where people emphasize work group goals above individual needs or desires [ 65 ]. Furthermore, recent research by Smith [ 44 ] points to the tensions that can exist between the production and safety institutional logics that exist in construction projects which coupled with Indonesia’s collectivist culture, is likely to mean that workers will tend to follow the orders of supervisors to complete the job within budget and program and if necessary put personal safety aside as a secondary consideration.…”

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A Safety Climate Framework for Improving Health and Safety in the Indonesian Construction Industry

Lestari

Sunindijo

Loosemore

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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The Indonesian construction industry is the second largest in Asia and accounts for over 30% of all occupational injuries in the country. Despite the size of the industry, there is a lack of safety research in this context. This research, therefore, aims to assess safety climate and develop a framework to improve safety in the Indonesian construction industry. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from 311 construction workers. The results show a moderately healthy safety climate but reflect numerous problems, particularly around perceived conflicts between production and safety logics, cost trade-offs being made against other competing project priorities, poor safety communication, poor working conditions, acceptance of poor safety as the norm, poor reporting and monitoring practices, poor training and a risky and unsupportive working environment which prevents workers from operating safely. Two new safety climate paradoxes are also revealed: contradictions between management communications and management practices; contradictions between worker concern for safety and their low sense of personal accountability and empowerment for acting to reduce these risks. A low locus of control over safety is also identified as a significant problem which is related to prevailing Indonesian cultural norms and poor safety policy implementation and potential conflicts between formal and informal safety norms, practices and procedures. Drawing on these findings, a new integrated framework of safety climate is presented to improve safety performance in the Indonesian construction industry.

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A Safety Climate Framework for Improving Health and Safety in the Indonesian Construction Industry

Lestari

Sunindijo

Loosemore

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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“…Mean scores (MSs) and standard deviations were used to describe the scale. The series of questions combined in the scale were derived from past studies on construction safety (please see Darabont et al, 2019, Dekker, 2019Emuze, 2020;Sherratt, 2016;Smith, 2019). For instance, problematic behaviour in this study is described as 'unsafe acts' by Reason (2008).…”

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Impact of Work Pressure on Construction Safety

2023

EPPM-Journal

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Uncontrolled increase in construction activities heightens work pressure, making a work site less safe due to deviations from safety working procedures. The unabated reporting of accidents in construction necessitates a study into work pressure and the threat to safe working procedures in construction. Thus, this study investigated how work pressure drives a decline in adherence to safe working procedures on-site, making it less safe. The data were collected from a closedended survey of construction professionals in a South African province. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyse the collected data descriptively. The findings showed that work pressure from supervisors could lead to a decline in adherence to safe working procedures. If work pressure is unchecked, the outcome might result in safety violations on construction sites. The effects of work pressure on construction workers include problematic behaviour, stress, and fatigue. Other effects are interpersonal conflict, lack of concentration on work, and demotivation. This study was limited to examining how work pressure drives a decline in adherence to safe working procedures in construction. South Africa, as the site for data collection, is used for illustration purposes. In future studies, mixed-methods research in multiple contexts should be considered to produce insights transferable to other places. This article draws attention to practices that could make a construction site less safe through work pressures, especially in developing countries. It is argued conceptually that work pressure must be controlled to ensure that safe working procedures are not violated. Based on the findings, it was established that work pressure could accelerate a decline in adherence to safe working procedures, resulting in safety violations that create an environment in which accidents occur.

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“…Lingard, Pink, et al, 2015;Oswald et al, 2018). On the other hand, several studies have done research on how to improve industrial hygiene by establishing a good work environment by improving construction project management in building sites (Borgheipour et al, 2020;Kearney et al, 2017;Smith, 2019).…”

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Exploring Current and Future Research Trends on Safety Climate in Construction Projects

Kajumulo

Matindana

Mohamed

2023

TJET

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Clients, consultants, and contractors in the construction industry can benefit from a safety climate by obtaining knowledge of attitudes and perceptions for better safety outcomes. However, the current and future research trends for safety climate in construction projects have not yet been fully examined. In order to solve this problem, a systematic review of previous research findings using a social network approach must be conducted, and future trends for the safety climate in building projects must be identified. Sixty-three peer-reviewed articles were gathered to study the literature on safety climate in construction projects. A social network approach was employed using VOS viewer to look at the connections between the researchers and the article's keywords. Based on the frequency of researcher collaboration and the connections between the keywords used in the publications, five research groups and four keyword themes were identified using the social network analysis results. The scholars received substantial implications and insights on the state of the research and future directions, which helped create a focused development strategy for safety climate in construction projects. The scope of this study is limited to publications on the subject matter from 2000 to 2021, which provided the base for the current and future research trends on safety climate in construction projects. The findings from this social network analysis revealed that studies on safety climate are more skewed to the organizational level than the project level. In developing countries like Tanzania, studies are scanty. Also, different levels of decision-making within the organization and within construction projects, call for different safety factors whereby the current studies have slightly considered such a fact. Furthermore, it is the right time now for researchers to focus on developing a safety climate maturity framework for construction projects.

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Safety first? Production pressures and the implications on safety and health

Cited by 7 publications

References 19 publications

A Safety Climate Framework for Improving Health and Safety in the Indonesian Construction Industry

A Safety Climate Framework for Improving Health and Safety in the Indonesian Construction Industry

Impact of Work Pressure on Construction Safety

Exploring Current and Future Research Trends on Safety Climate in Construction Projects

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