Measurement techniques for organizational safety causal models: Characterization and suggestions for enhancements

Mohaghegh, Zahra; Mosleh, Ali

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2009.04.002

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“…As a compensation for limitations of traditional safety indicators, some alternative measures are increasingly used to provide enough information or insight to predict the future level of safety performance. Specifically, various measures for determining safety status proactively have been developed at three levels: the measurement of the immediate causes of accidents, such as unsafe acts and unsafe conditions [32]; safety-related organizational activities and safety management systems, such as health and safety training, safety inspections and audits [11,23,25,29]; and a safety climate survey to measure workers' attitudes and perceptions of the work environment [7,33]. With the development of these alternative measures, the terms "lagging" and "leading" have been used to distinguish two types of indicators.…”

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Using leading and lagging indicators to select safe contractors at the prequalification stage of construction projects

Liang

Zhang

2018

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

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The contractor-selection decision at the prequalification stage is critical to the project success. An insufficient prediction of contractors' safety capacities using only lagging indicators may hinder the continuous improvement of safety performance in the construction industry. This research enhanced construction management and practices by proposing a comprehensive safe contractor selection model which integrated both leading and lagging indicators. First, a set of leading and lagging safety indicators were identified based on literature review and expert opinions. Then, the grey correlation analysis (GCA) was utilized to assign weights to individual indicators. We found that management commitment, safety training and education, safety risk management, and safety rules and procedures were four most influential factors to the safety performance of contractors. In addition, the fuzzy technique of ordering preference by similarity to ideal solution (Fuzzy TOPSIS) was used to condense individual indicators and create a composite safety performance indicator (c-SPI). Finally, the feasibility of the decision support tool for safe contractor selection was verified using a real-case railway construction project.

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Section: Leading and Lagging Safety Indicatorsmentioning

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Using leading and lagging indicators to select safe contractors at the prequalification stage of construction projects

Liang

Zhang

2018

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

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“…Organizational and management factors (e.g. organizational culture, organizational structure/practices, and organizational climate) play an important role among the factors affecting operator performance (Mohaghegh and Mosleh, 2009b). There are models to link hardware failures and organizational performance in risk analysis (Mohaghegh et al, 2009;Mohaghegh and Mosleh, 2009a).…”

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Accident management support tools in nuclear power plants: A post-Fukushima review

Saghafi

Ghofrani

2016

Progress in Nuclear Energy

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“…Langford et al (2000) found that when employees believe management cares about their personal safety, they are more willing to co-operate to improve safety performance. In addition, such meaningful management actions in support of safety help to create the positive working environment that motivates safe work behaviour and raises safety expectations (DeJoy et al 2010;Mohaghegh, Mosleh 2009b). Under such circumstances, these will enable employees transform from only compliance-based behaviour to safety citizenship behaviour; that is intending to work more than what is simply prescribed by safety regulations (Gvekye, Salminen 2007;Mearns, Reader 2008).…”

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Identification of Important Organisational Factors Influencing Safety Work Behaviours in Construction Projects / Saugią Elgseną Statybose Veikiančių Organizacinių Veiksnių Nustatymas

Jitwasinkul

Hadikusumo

2011

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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Although the importance of organisational factors in human error has been acknowledged, the influence of organisational factors in the area of work behaviour in construction industry has rarely been examined. The first step of investigation should begin with identifying the relevant contributing factors affecting at-risk work behaviours. Thus, the aim of this research is to identify important organisational factors that will reduce at-risk work behaviours. The implications of these findings are further used to quantify and investigate the role of organisational factors as an integral feature of safety intervention. Case studies are used to identify and categorize organisational factors. This identification process begins with literature reviews as commonly performed. The literature related with organisational factors was used as a primary source to investigate the influences of organisational factors on at-risk work behaviours. Hence, semi-structured interviews and reviews of the company's documents were conducted involving safety experts and workers to gain experiential and practical knowledge. The obtained results identified seven important factors of Thailand construction industry: communication, culture, management commitment, leadership, organisation learning, empowerment, and reward system. The implications of particular applications from these factors are considered as critical features for handling work behaviours. In addition, empirical findings provide particularly insight factors from expertise in a practical way. Validations with previous publications of some factors are also discussed. The identified contributing determinants from empirical findings can be expected to be influential at different levels within an organization. Consequently, the proposed hypothetical casual models enables determination of disparity in their influences of organisational factors when considering interventions to reduce at-risk work behaviour or to promote safe work behaviours. Santrauka Organizacinių veiksnių įtaka žmonių klaidoms buvo pripažįstama ilgą laiką, tačiau tų veiksnių poveikis saugiai elgsenai statybos pramonėje yra mažai ištirtas. Pirmasis tyrimo žingsnis turėtų būti veiksnių, darančių įtaką rizikingai elgsenai, nustatymas. Tyrimo tikslas – nustatyti organizacinius veiksnius, kurie leistų mažinti rizikingą elgseną darbo vietose. Tai leis tirti ir kiekybiškai vertinti organizacinių veiksnių vaidmenį užtikrinant saugą. Organizaciniai veiksniai nustatomi ir skirstomi kategorijomis nagrinėjant pavyzdžius. Apžvelgiama literatūra, kuri naudojama kaip pirminis informacijos apie organizacinius veiksnius šaltinis, atliekama pusiau struktūrinta saugos ekspertų ir darbuotojų apklausa, apžvelgiami įmonės dokumentai. Gauti rezultatai leido nustatyti septynis reikšmingus veiksnius, būdingus Tailando statybos pramonei: komunikacija, kultūra, vadybininkų įsipareigojimai, vadovavimas, organizaciniai mokymai, galių suteikimas, apdovanojimų sistema. Nagrinėjama šių veiksnių reikšmė užtikrinant saugią elgseną darbo vietoje. Teigiama, kad empirinės žinios, sukauptos straipsnyje aprašomame tyrime, leis nustatyti veiksnių įtaką skirtingais organizacijos lygmenimis. Straipsnyje siūlomi modeliai leis vertinti organizacinių veiksnių įtakos rizikingai elgsenai darbe nevienodumą ir skatinti saugią elgseną.

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Measurement techniques for organizational safety causal models: Characterization and suggestions for enhancements

Cited by 47 publications

References 22 publications

Using leading and lagging indicators to select safe contractors at the prequalification stage of construction projects

Using leading and lagging indicators to select safe contractors at the prequalification stage of construction projects

Accident management support tools in nuclear power plants: A post-Fukushima review

Identification of Important Organisational Factors Influencing Safety Work Behaviours in Construction Projects / Saugią Elgseną Statybose Veikiančių Organizacinių Veiksnių Nustatymas

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