Factors Influencing Safety Climate in the Construction Industry: A Review

Mosly, Ibrahim

doi:10.5923/j.ijcem.20190803.03

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“…A case study approach and quantitative research design was followed to achieve the objectives of this study. A set of 18 factors influencing safety climate in the construction industry was adopted from Mosly [ 2 ]. In their original literature review, the author only included articles from the Web of Science platform journal list.…”

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“…The key words used in the search included “construction”, “safety climate”, and “factors”. Additional references were added to the previous literature review by Mosly [ 2 ] compiling a total of 62 references used to identify the 18 factors influencing safety climate in the construction industry. This was made to enhance the reference list used to identify the influencing factors and make it more comprehensive.…”

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“…Workers in the construction industry are in need of safety measures assimilation. The construction industry is a dangerous one, with high levels of injuries and death ratios compared to other industries [ 2 ]. Records show that the number of nonfatal occupational injuries in the U.S. construction industry in the year 2018 was 199,100 cases [ 3 ].…”

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Safety Climate Perceptions in the Construction Industry of Saudi Arabia: The Current Situation

Mosly

Makki

2020

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Workers’ wellbeing and safety is important in the construction industry due to the high risk of accidents. Safety climate development is a positive initial step toward raising the safety levels of construction practitioners. This study aims at revealing the factors influencing safety climate perceptions in the construction industry of Saudi Arabia. A set of extracted factors from the literature was validated and used to design a comprehensive questionnaire survey. Data was collected from 401 personnel working on 3 large construction project sites in Saudi Arabia. Descriptive statistics and the crosstabulation algorithm, Kendall’s tau-b correlation test, were used to analyze the data. The study revealed a set of 13 factors influencing safety climate perceptions, which are: Supervision, guidance and inspection, appraisal of risks and hazards, social security and health insurance, workmate influences, management safety justice, management commitment to safety, education and training, communication, workers’ safety commitment, workers’ attitude toward health and safety, workers’ involvement, supportive environment, and competence. The results also indicate the significant and anticipated role of top management in safety climate at sites. Implications of this study include assisting construction industry stakeholders to better understand and enhance safety climate, which in turn will lead to improved safety behavior, culture, motivation, and performance.

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Safety Climate Perceptions in the Construction Industry of Saudi Arabia: The Current Situation

Mosly

Makki

2020

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“…The term SC is used to explain organizational factors which influence safety practices and behaviors of worker [9,10]. According to Mosly [11], SC must be a top priority to have a construction site equipped with a high level of safety performance. The value of SC is as a leading indicator of unsafe behaviors and worker related accidents (Zohar, 2010) [12].…”

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Exploring the Relationship between Safety Climate and Worker Safety Behavior on Building Construction Sites in Taiwan

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Construction occupational accidents are often attributed to workers’ having an insufficient perception of how their actions influence safety in the construction site. This research explores the relationship between safety climate (SC) and personnel safety behavior (SB) of construction workers operating on building construction sites in Taiwan. The study discovered a significant positive relationship between SC and SB of Taiwan’s building construction sites, and in turn SC level had a positive impact on SB participation and overall safety perceptions. The higher the SC cognition of Taiwan’s building construction workers, the better the performance of SB was found to be. The dimension of "safety commitment and safety training" had the greatest relationship with SB. Safety training also had a deep impact on the cognition of SB. Therefore, the organizational culture and attitudes to safety coupled with the successful implementation of safety education and training can effectively enhance SC and worker SB on building construction sites in Taiwan, thereby potentially reducing the impacts of the underlying organizational factors behind safety related incidents.

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“…Construction companies with enhanced safety climates are likely to employ construction workers with high-risk perception [ 11 ]. Thus, increasing safety climate levels appears to represent an important step toward enhancing overall safety performance [ 12 ]. The safety climate affects both hazard recognition and safety risk perception [ 13 ].…”

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The Effects of Multi-Sociodemographic Characteristics of Construction Sites Personnel on Perceptions of Safety Climate-Influencing Factors: The Construction Industry in Saudi Arabia

Mosly

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2021

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The construction industry in Saudi Arabia relies prominently on migrant workers of multi-sociodemographic characteristics with different perceptions of a safety climate. The exploration of the perceptions regarding the safety climate among various groups of migrant workers may help identify effective means of improving safety levels at construction sites in Saudi Arabia. This study aimed to examine the effects of multi-sociodemographic characteristics of construction site personnel on their perceptions of the factors that influence the safety climate at construction sites in Saudi Arabia. Data were collected from 401 construction site workers, employed at ongoing construction project sites in Saudi Arabia, using a designed questionnaire. A generalized, linear model approach was applied, using the single ordinal logistic regression method, to analyze the collected data. The results revealed the significant sets of sociodemographic characteristics and their associated subgroups that had significant effects on the perception of importance assigned to each safety climate-influencing factor. These findings provide a better understanding of the views of construction site personnel on the safety climate and can assist construction industry decision-makers, safety policy designers, government agencies, and stakeholders when designing better-targeted enhancement plans and strategies to improve the safety climate of construction sites, based on the sociodemographic makeup of the personnel at each construction site.

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Factors Influencing Safety Climate in the Construction Industry: A Review

Cited by 13 publications

References 30 publications

Safety Climate Perceptions in the Construction Industry of Saudi Arabia: The Current Situation

Safety Climate Perceptions in the Construction Industry of Saudi Arabia: The Current Situation

Exploring the Relationship between Safety Climate and Worker Safety Behavior on Building Construction Sites in Taiwan

The Effects of Multi-Sociodemographic Characteristics of Construction Sites Personnel on Perceptions of Safety Climate-Influencing Factors: The Construction Industry in Saudi Arabia

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