The nature of safety culture: A survey of the state-of-the-art

Choudhry, Rafiq M.; Fang, Dongping; Mohamed, Sherif Ali Mohtady

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2006.09.003

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“…Recognizing signals before an accident occurs offers the potential for improving safety; many organizations have sought to develop programs to identify and benefit from alerts, signals, and prior indicators (Grabowski et al, 2007). Traditional measures of safety performance rely on some form of accident or injury data (Choudhry et al, 2007), with actions being taken in response to adverse trends in injuries (Hallowell et al, 2013). Fearnley and Nair (2009) also noted that the original response from organizations was to assess safety by monitoring and investigating accidents and incidents to determine root causes in order to target actions that could reduce the risk of a repeat event.…”

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“…Another technique is behavior sampling, which requires one or more trained observers to observe workers on-site to determine whether they are working safely or unsafely (Choudhry et al, 2007).…”

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“…Accident costs tend to be reactive or after the event and are relatively infrequent. This focus on safety results often means that the success of safety is measured by levels of system failure (Choudhry et al, 2007). However, there is a growing consensus among safety professionals and researchers that lagging indicators, which require that an accident must occur or a person must get injured before a measure can be made, may or may not provide the necessary insights for avoiding future accidents (Grabowski et al, 2007).…”

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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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2017

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“…the current level of risk) are often seen as belonging to climate (Guldenmund, 2000). Comprehensive overviews of safety culture can be found in (Guldenmund, 2000;Choudhry et al, 2007) and shall therefore not be repeated here. Instead we draw attention to two issues that are glaringly absent in current safety culture research but which we consider highly relevant for strategies to overcome resistance to change.…”

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Strategies for dealing with resistance to recommendations from accident investigations

Lundberg

Rollenhagen

Hollnagel

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Accident Analysis & Prevention

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Abstract. Accident investigation reports usually lead to a set of recommendations for change. These recommendations are, however, sometimes resisted for reasons such as various aspects of ethics and power. When accident investigators are aware of this, they use several strategies to overcome the resistance. This paper describes strategies for dealing with four different types of resistance to change. The strategies were derived from qualitative analysis of 25 interviews with Swedish accident investigators from seven application domains. The main contribution of the paper is a better understanding of effective strategies for achieving change associated with accident investigation.

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“…In addition, the stakeholders in construction service industries in this country, both state-owned enterprise and national private construction companies, should have active contributions to improve their competitiveness under the climate change of the ongoing competition. Nevertheless, poor safety culture becomes one of the main culprits in the global construction industry since it frequently causes accidents and death [1].The impact of working accidents on the construction project is very crucial, in addition to fatality, accidents at construction project leads to decreased productivity, increased product costs, medical burden, and other adverse consequences [2]. In order to improve the competitiveness in the global market, improvement in the performance of construction project should be performed entirely by every domestic construction company.…”

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Structural equation model to investigate the dimensions influencing safety culture improvement in construction sector: A case in Indonesia

Machfudiyanto

Latief

Yogiswara

et al. 2017

AIP Conference Proceedings

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The nature of safety culture: A survey of the state-of-the-art

Cited by 455 publications

References 40 publications

Safety Activity Analysis Framework to Evaluate Safety Performance in Construction

Safety Activity Analysis Framework to Evaluate Safety Performance in Construction

Strategies for dealing with resistance to recommendations from accident investigations

Structural equation model to investigate the dimensions influencing safety culture improvement in construction sector: A case in Indonesia

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