Supervisor-Focused Behavior-Based Safety Method for the Construction Industry: Case Study in Hong Kong

Zhang, Peiyao; Li, Nan; Fang, Dongping; Wu, Haojie

doi:10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0001294

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“…Moreover, some researches revealed that unsafe worker actions were not deliberate safety violations, but rather outcomes resulting from poor hazard recognition and safety risk perception (Albert, Hallowell, & Kleiner, 2009;Tixier, Hallowell, Albert, van Boven, & Kleiner, 2014). Since the ability of hazard recognition and safety risk perception was determined in large part by safety training (Namian, Albert, Zuluaga, & Behm, 2016), construction safety management began to contain more deep-rooted factors, such as safety training, safety culture, safety climate, and so on (Wilkins, 2011;Wu, Song, Wang, & Fang, 2015;Zhang et al, 2017). Furthermore, with the rapid development of information technologies, it was also explored how to improve construction safety management by harnessing emerging technologies, such as BIM, RFID, VR and AR (Yi, Zhang, & Calvo, 2015;Lee et al, 2012;Li, Yi, Chi, Wang, & Albert, 2018).…”

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“…Construction accidents occur frequently in the construction industry, and safety management has become the top priority of construction companies and project management (Lee et al, 2012;Zhang, Fang, & Wu, 2017). According to the statistical reports released by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) of China, a total of 634 accidents occurred in the Chinese housing and municipal construction industry resulting in 735 deaths during 2016, while 692 accidents occurred resulting in 807 deaths during 2017, with an increase.…”

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Reliability Model and Critical Factors Identification of Construction Safety Management Based on System Thinking

Zhang

Luo

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Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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Safety is a key objective of construction management, but construction safety management is complex due to various types of technical and management factors. If critical factors can be identified and corresponding measurements can be adopted, it will be more direct and effective to improve safety performance. In this paper, by using the system thinking method, construction safety management is considered as a system and decomposed into six subsystems and related management factors. The fuzzy fault tree analysis method was used to build a reliability analysis model and reveal the failure probabilities of factors in the safety organization management subsystem. Through a questionnaire survey conducted in Wuhan, China, the pivotal importance degrees and average occurrence probabilities of basic factors are figured out. On the basis of that, nine critical factors of the safety organization management subsystem are identified and corresponding improvement measurements are proposed. More, a case study of Hangzhou underground railway tunnel collapse accident in 2008 is conducted, which verifies that the framework of construction safety management based on system thinking can be a useful tool for identifying faults or failure reasons of construction safety management.

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Reliability Model and Critical Factors Identification of Construction Safety Management Based on System Thinking

Zhang

Luo

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Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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“…A Behavior Based Safety (BBS) approach was adopted to examine the influence of relations between the supervisors and the workers in construction sites in which the behavior of the workers had been analyzed through the supervisors who have regular and persuasive communications with the site workers. The study revealed that there was a better result in safety climate and the workers behavior [20]. From the previous literatures it is found that human factors were based only on age and experience of the workers.…”

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Examination the Influence of Human Factors in Indian Building Construction Sites

2019

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This research intends to explore the human factors which lead to non-fatal accidents (i.e. first aid case, near miss, lost time injury) and assessing safety supervision factors in building construction sites. A total of hundred non – fatal accident data is collected for the analysis. Human factors such as age, experience, language, education level and competency of the worker are explored using data analysis method. The root causes for the accidents are also determined and it is found that 22% of the construction site accidents are due to improper supervision. Furthermore a questionnaire survey is conducted among the Safety Engineers, Site Engineers, Supervisors and Workers to elicit the actual happenings about the safety supervision in the site. The questionnaire mainly focused on safety supervision factors and Relative Importance Index (RII) is used to rank the safety factors. As a result, monitoring hoist operation (0.73), moving vehicle (0.72) and checking the stability of scaffolds (0.69) shows higher level of disagreement which means that these factors have been given least priority. In order to measure the strength of relationship between the respondents, Spearman’s Rank Correlation is done. Through the Spearman’s correlation it is known that Safety Engineers vs Supervisors (0.83) and Safety Engineers vs Site Engineers (0.81) has high correlation values which indicates that these respondents have provided similar rankings.

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“…Construction workers rely heavily on their supervisors for allocating tasks and being guided and supported continuously because of the complex and dynamic nature of construction work. Thus, compared with the middle or top management, supervisors who interact with workers most frequently can directly contribute to the improvement of safety environment which determines workers' safety related perceptions and behaviours (Chih, Kiazad, Cheng, Lajom, & Restubog, 2017;Zhang, Li, Fang, & Wu, 2017). Furthermore, construction activities are characterized as decentralization and mobility, where frontline workers have more autonomy to make behaviour decisions discretionally, and change workplace frequently (Choi et al, 2017a).…”

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The Impact of Supervisor–worker Relationship on Workers’ Safety Violations: A Modified Theory of Planned Behaviour

Cong

Lian

2019

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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This study develops and tests an integrative model to better understand the mechanisms by which the leadermember exchange (LMX) determines workers’ safety behaviours. The modified theory of planned behaviour (TPB) was proposed by using attitudinal ambivalence to replace univalent safety attitude. Empirical data were collected from 229 construction workers in China using a detailed questionnaire. Both situational and routine safety violations were considered in this model. The results showed that LMX had significant effects on both types of safety violations through three mediators from the modified TPB framework. Specifically, attitudinal ambivalence and group safety norm mediated the relationships between LMX and both types workers’ safety violations. However, perceived behavioural control only mediated the relationship between LMX and individuals’ routine safety violations. Furthermore, this research supported the distinctions between situational and routine safety violations. The indirect effects of LMX on individuals’ situational safety violations took place mainly through group safety norm. By contrast, the indirect effects on individuals’ routine safety violations took place mainly through attitudinal ambivalence and perceived behavioural control. Finally, the theoretical and practical implications, research limitations, and future directions were discussed. The results provide some meaningful insights into how to improve safety compliance behaviours from the perspective of supervisor-worker relationships.

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Supervisor-Focused Behavior-Based Safety Method for the Construction Industry: Case Study in Hong Kong

Cited by 66 publications

References 34 publications

Reliability Model and Critical Factors Identification of Construction Safety Management Based on System Thinking

Reliability Model and Critical Factors Identification of Construction Safety Management Based on System Thinking

Examination the Influence of Human Factors in Indian Building Construction Sites

The Impact of Supervisor–worker Relationship on Workers’ Safety Violations: A Modified Theory of Planned Behaviour

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