Team Processes and Safety of Workers: Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Processes of Construction Crews

Mitropoulos, Panagiotis; Memarian, Babak

doi:10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0000527

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“…Fang, Xie, Huang, and Li (2004), Ng, Cheng, and Skitmore (2005), Aksorn and Hadikusumo (2008), Khan et al (2015), and A. H. Memon, Soomro, N. A. Memon, and Abassi (2017) tried to explore how to effectively organize safety management and achieve good safety performance of construction projects. While Mitropoulos and Memarian (2012), and Zhang, Liu, Wu, and Skibniewski (2016) concentrated mainly on how to build cautious, rigorous, and skillful worker teams. These researches and findings are shown in Table 1.…”

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Reliability Model and Critical Factors Identification of Construction Safety Management Based on System Thinking

Zhang

Luo

et al. 2019

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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Safety is a key objective of construction management, but construction safety management is complex due to various types of technical and management factors. If critical factors can be identified and corresponding measurements can be adopted, it will be more direct and effective to improve safety performance. In this paper, by using the system thinking method, construction safety management is considered as a system and decomposed into six subsystems and related management factors. The fuzzy fault tree analysis method was used to build a reliability analysis model and reveal the failure probabilities of factors in the safety organization management subsystem. Through a questionnaire survey conducted in Wuhan, China, the pivotal importance degrees and average occurrence probabilities of basic factors are figured out. On the basis of that, nine critical factors of the safety organization management subsystem are identified and corresponding improvement measurements are proposed. More, a case study of Hangzhou underground railway tunnel collapse accident in 2008 is conducted, which verifies that the framework of construction safety management based on system thinking can be a useful tool for identifying faults or failure reasons of construction safety management.

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Reliability Model and Critical Factors Identification of Construction Safety Management Based on System Thinking

Zhang

Luo

et al. 2019

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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“…For worker teams, Mitropoulos and Memarian (2012) found that four factors distinctly affected safety performance of worker teams, including team cognitive attributes, team motivational attributes, team behaviors, and enhancing effectiveness. Jiang et al (2014) adopted a system dynamics method and analyze the relationships between individual factors (e.g., safety awareness, safety knowledge, and attitude), environmental factors (e.g., hazards), management factors (e.g., communication, check, and training), and workers' unsafe behavior.…”

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A Construction Safety Management System from Contractors’ Perspectives

Zhang¹,

Chen²

2015

Iccrem 2015

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Safety is a basic requirement as well as a difficult problem. Although Chinese contractors grow fast and become more professional, they never feel relaxed to ensure safety and avoid accidents, because construction market and project environment also change. Contractors who only use instinct and experiences cannot manage safety issues well. Rather, they should establish a safety management system and apply it in all projects. This paper attempted to develop a model of contractors' safety management system, for that, an expert interview was conducted. First, the authors revealed defects of contractors' safety management in present. Some defects were mentioned in literatures and agreed by a large number of experts, while some were newly discovered through this survey. These defects need special concern from contractors. Then, the authors proposed corresponding measurements for defects from three view angles, namely, safety culture, regular safety programs, and cooperation mechanisms. The safety management system and related measurements can provide a reference for contractors.

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“…Team cohesion is thought to be necessary for long-distance space exploration crews as circumstances will require crewmembers to live and work in isolated environments for long-durations and rely on one another for support (Schmidt et al, 2009). Similarly, team cohesion is thought to be important for teams requiring safety such as construction crews because of the relationship between positive working relations, coworker and supervisor social support, and occupational injuries (Hinze, 1981;Iverson & Erwin, 1997;Mitropoulos & Memarian, 2012). Finally, extensive research supports the importance of team cohesion for military and sports team (Carron, Colman, Wheeler, & Stevens, 2002;Oliver et al, 1999).…”

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Selecting and Composing Cohesive Teams

Bell¹,

Brown²

2015

Team Cohesion: Advances in Psychological Theory, Methods and Practice

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Teams are best positioned for success when certain enabling conditions are in place such as the right mix of individuals. Effective team staffing considers team members' knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics (KSAOs) as well as the configuration of team member KSAOs and their relations, called team composition. In practice, however, how to integrate team composition considerations into team staffing to facilitate outcomes such as team cohesion can seem nebulous. The purpose of this chapter is to describe how team member KSAOs and their configurations and relations affect team cohesion, and suggest how this information can inform team staffing. We frame team cohesion as an aspect of team human capital to understand when it may be an important consideration for staffing. We describe multilevel considerations in staffing cohesive teams. We summarize theories that link team composition to team cohesion via interpersonal attraction, a shared team identity, and team task commitment. Finally, we propose a six-step approach for staffing cohesive teams, and describe a few areas for future research.

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Team Processes and Safety of Workers: Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Processes of Construction Crews

Cited by 85 publications

References 77 publications

Reliability Model and Critical Factors Identification of Construction Safety Management Based on System Thinking

Reliability Model and Critical Factors Identification of Construction Safety Management Based on System Thinking

A Construction Safety Management System from Contractors’ Perspectives

Selecting and Composing Cohesive Teams

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