How safety leadership works among owners, contractors and subcontractors in construction projects

Wu, Chunlin; Wang, Feng A.; Zou, Patrick X.W.; Fang, Dongping

doi:10.1016/j.ijproman.2016.02.013

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“…Role modelling may hence be of particular importance for safety leadership in the construction industry. Indeed, Wu et al (2016) demonstrate how modelling and imitation can progress through contractor levels, from owner through main contractors to subcontractors, and argue that role modelling exerted the widest range of influence on the safety climate in construction projects.…”

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The leadership practices of construction site managers and their influence on occupational safety: an observational study of transformational and passive/avoidant leadership

Grill

Nielsen

Grytnes

et al. 2018

Construction Management and Economics

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More than 20% of all reported occupational accidents in Europe in 2015 occurred within the construction industry. Leadership is an imperative antecedent to occupational safety. Transformational leadership is considered a central aspect of safety-promoting leadership and passive/avoidant leadership is considered a central aspect of poor safety leadership. This study aimed to comprehensively elucidate concrete, real-life transformational and passive/avoidant leadership behaviours through context-specific descriptions of day-today interactions between construction site managers and employees. A mixed method design was applied, combining structured observations of construction site managers, with questionnaire responses from construction employees. With this design, common method bias was eliminated. The results provide context-specific examples of transformational and passive/avoidant leadership behaviour. High proportions of observed transformational leadership was found to predict high construction site safety. High proportions of observed passive/avoidant leadership was found to predict low construction site safety. The proportion of transformational leadership behaviour was higher among site managers in Sweden than in Denmark, indicating that national cultural context may be an antecedent to safety leadership among construction site managers. Applying less passive/avoidant leadership and more transformational leadership appears to be an effective way for construction site managers to improve occupational safety in the industry.

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The leadership practices of construction site managers and their influence on occupational safety: an observational study of transformational and passive/avoidant leadership

Grill

Nielsen

Grytnes

et al. 2018

Construction Management and Economics

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“…The role of safety leaders in shaping the approach to safety among employees of both the investor and contractors as well as works subcontractors is underlined. It can be additionally strengthened in the situation when safety leaders representing individual participants of the investment process work closely together [20]. Research also indicates the importance of attitude and behaviour of managers running teams carrying out construction works for the safety perception of construction workers.…”

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Accident Rate as a Measure of Safety Assessment in Polish Civil Engineering

Cieslewicz

Araszkiewicz

Sikora

2019

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Civil engineering is characterised by high volatility with respect to working conditions, which are the source of many threats to worker life and health and contribute to high accident rates. The purpose of this paper is to analyse and evaluate the phenomenon of accidents in Polish civil engineering and define the direction of changes that should occur in the safety area. The studies included in this research covered the years 2004–2018. The following indicators were used to assess the accident rates: (1) The total number of persons injured in workplace accidents and this total divided into fatal, severe, and minor accidents; (2) indicators of frequency of accidents in total and this total divided into minor, severe, and fatal accidents; (3) and an indicator of the severity of accidents. From the analysis of statistical data for the years 200–2018, the changes in accident rate parameters demonstrate the continuous improvement of workplace safety in the Polish civil engineering sector. From the analysed data from the 15 years, a clear decrease in the value of the applied indicators is apparent, including both the number of people involved in accidents and the frequency and severity of accidents.

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“…There is a focus on the role for shaping the so-called culture of OSH, played by the so-called safety leadership of various participants in the construction process, such as owners of subcontracting companies or the general contractor's companies. However, this is of importance where proper communication between various organizational levels on the construction site is maintained [2].…”

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“…According to global data, each year 60,000 employees are killed in the construction industry worldwide. The construction sector employs 10% of workers globally, yet 20-40% of the total number of fatal accidents taking place in all economic sectors occur therein [2].…”

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An application of the Pareto method in surveys to diagnose managers’ and workers’ perception of occupational safety and health on selected Polish construction sites

Obolewicz

Dąbrowski

2017

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

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The construction industry is an important sector of the economy in Poland. According to the National Labour Inspectorate (PIP) data of 2014, the number of victims of fatal accidents in the construction sector amounted to 80 as compared with 187 injured in all other sectors of economy in Poland. This article presents the results of surveys on the impact of construction worker behaviour on the occupational safety and health outcomes. The surveys took into account the point of view of both construction site management (tactical level) and construction workers (operational level). For the analysis of results, the method of numerical taxonomy and Pareto charts was employed, which allowed the authors to identify the areas of occupational safety and health at both an operational and a tactical level, in which improvement actions needed to be proposed for workers employed in micro, small, medium and large construction enterprises.

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How safety leadership works among owners, contractors and subcontractors in construction projects

Cited by 120 publications

References 45 publications

The leadership practices of construction site managers and their influence on occupational safety: an observational study of transformational and passive/avoidant leadership

The leadership practices of construction site managers and their influence on occupational safety: an observational study of transformational and passive/avoidant leadership

Accident Rate as a Measure of Safety Assessment in Polish Civil Engineering

An application of the Pareto method in surveys to diagnose managers’ and workers’ perception of occupational safety and health on selected Polish construction sites

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