Safety climate responses and the perceived risk of accidents in the construction industry

Safety Climates in Construction Industry: Understanding the Role of Construction Sites and Workgroups

“…Indeed, construction site is an important, specific and complex part of the construction sector, which is so often referred to in an attempt to explain results in previous studies [20]. Construction subcontractors are often engaged in complex relationships and workers involved in subcontracted companies are not connected with the principal contractor and remain relatively isolated from their own company, which could conduct to sub-units (construction site) safety climate that should be predicted by construction companies.…”

“…Teo & Feng [25], in their study about safety culture in construction sites, found that safety climate has an impact on the three dimensions of safety culture, psychological, situational/environmental and behavioral dimensions. According to Meliá and colleagues [20,26], safety climate can be analyzed from the point of view of the agent that performs the safety response in question, by identifying four main safety agents (organization, supervisors, co-workers and worker). In their study, results revealed that organizational safety response and supervisory safety response are strongly related, as are co-worker and worker safety response.…”

“…Meliá and colleagues [20], identified four main safety agents, organization, supervisors, co-workers and worker and five safety climate factors: Organizational safety response, supervisors' safety response, co-workers' safety response, worker's safety response and Perceived risk of accidents. This analysis is relevant because the organizational processes occur simultaneously at different hierarchical levels of an organization; policies and procedures are established at the organization level and are executed at the subunit level (supervisory practices).…”

El riesgo percibido por el trabajador de la construcción: ¿qué rol juega el oficio?

“…Varios estudios han visto las diferencias en la percepción de la seguridad en diferentes tipos de proyectos y con diferentes cargos como, trabajadores, supervisores, ingenieros y empresarios (Mohamed, 2002). Otros solamente han estudiado la percepción del riesgo según la categoría laboral (Meliá et al, 2008).…”

“…Bohm y Harris (2010) estudian trabajadores del sector de la construcción poniendo de manifiesto la diferente percepción que tienen los trabajadores acerca de determinados riesgos y los riesgos calificados como "objetivos" por los expertos. Se ha encontrado relación entre el riesgo percibido y la cultura de seguridad (López del Puerto & Clevenger, 2014); entre el riesgo percibido y el clima de seguridad (Meliá et al, 2008); entre el riesgo percibido, la presión económica y la explotación (Menzel & Gutiérrez, 2010); y entre el riesgo percibido y los factores culturales del trabajador (Smith & Mustard, 2009;Menzel & Gutiérrez, 2010). Los estudios anteriores ponen de manifiesto la necesidad de analizar la percepción del riego, al objeto de promover conductas seguras.…”