The structural analysis between safety factors having an effect on the construction workers' behavior

Abstract

This paper presents the findings relative to the influence factors on the safety of construction worker's actions. It identifies the factors which are involved in the safety behavior exercised by construction worker. They are compiled from existing studies that investigates the factors relative to the safety behavior. This study finds some factors which have powerful direct effects on safety behavior of construction workers. In addition, a model which defines the relationship between the factors and the behaviors of workers is established to analyze the effects. This study contributes to designe a theoretical model that shows workers' behaviors and analyzes the effects attributed to these factors: i.e., organizational commitment, stress reaction, safety motivation, safety knowledge, and safety climate. Survey questionaries are administered to the workers on the construction job sites located in Daegu metropolitan city. using SPSS18.0 and AMOS18.0, Exploratory Factor Analysis, Cronbach's alpha, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Structural Equations Model analysis were performed. The research findings are as follows; The communication and educational training have the direct effect on the safety behavior. The factors of the safety climate constraints and/or contributes to the safety motivation, safety knowledge, and organizational commitment.

Analyzing psychological conditions of field-workers in the construction industry

“…For reliable data collection, the researchers hired a professional survey company and the investigator of the company surveyed each respondent face to face by asking questions one by one and filling in the answers. Among the total 430 responses, we analyzed 59, 62, 44, 62, and 169 responses (total 396 responses) by filtering out samples that had missing values [39]. Around 87.9% of the respondents were from Seoul Metropolitan City, Incheon Metropolitan City, and Gyeonggi Province in Korea, and the remainder were from Gangwon, South Chungcheong, North Jeolla, and South Jeolla Provinces.…”

Effect of Brain and Pulse Waves on Safety Consciousness and Safety Commitment of Workers at Construction Sites

“…Unsafe behavior in response to accidents that may occur at the site is caused by reactions to stress [ 13 ]. In particular, stress responses such as depression and anxiety were found to have a negative effect on the safety behavior of workers at construction sites [ 65 ]. These psychological factors as well as physical factors of physical fatigue and inadequate energy supply can cause unsafe behavior in individual people, and the incidence of safety accidents due to unsafe behavior accounts for about 88% of all accidents [ 19 ].…”

Decision Making Method Based on Importance-Dangerousness Analysis for the Potential Risk Behavior of Construction Laborers

“…In the construction sector, various studies are being conducted to evaluate the background factors of unsafe behavior of construction field laborers, structural analysis of the influencing factors of safe behavior, and so forth. Generally, in existing studies, data are collected based on survey results, and analysis is then conducted using techniques such as one-way ANOVA [5], factor analysis [6], structural equation model [4,[7][8][9] analytic hierarchy process [10], and Importance-Performance Analysis [11]. However, like in most of the survey analysis, the average value has a significant implication in such methods, and, thus, this process is inherently inadequate in evaluating the potential risks of unsafe behavior.…”