Ghosh, S; Nourihamedani, M; Reyes, M and Snyder, L (2024) Association between leading indicators of safety performance in construction projects. International Journal of Construction Education and Research, 20(2), pp. 121-135. ISSN 15578771
Abstract
Safety performance of the construction industry in the US has been a concern among the industry practitioners and researchers. Despite all the efforts, the number of construction workplace fatalities has increased in the last decade. Beside loss of lives, the project stakeholders suffer greatly because of the financial burden imposed as a result of occupational injuries and accidents. In order to address the problem, recent studies have turned their attention to the more proactive approaches, such as assessing workers' perceptions of safety. The present study focused on measuring workers' perceptions of safety on construction projects with three distinct leading indicators such as safety climate, safety control, and risk perception. The link between workplace safety performance with the aforementioned indicators has been separately examined in existing studies. This study explored the interrelationships among the indicators. Correlation analyses between the variables demonstrated a positive correlation between workers' perceptions of safety control and safety climate. As workers' perceptions of safety climate depend on various factors, the safety programs can target to improve those individual factors and in turn improve the overall safety climate.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | construction safety; fatal four; risk perception; safety climate; safety control; questionaire survey |
| Index terms: | correlation analysis, fatalities, construction industry, injury, safety climate, workplace safety, survey, risk perception, practitioner, project stakeholder, construction project, safety performance, safety programs, construction safety |
| Subjects: | environmental hazards, environmental health, statistical analysis, occupational health, industry analysis, health conditions and diseases, sociology, occupational health and safety management, production management, health safety and environment, health risk and incident analysis, practitioner, data collection methods |
| Topics: | Project Management, Research Practice, Health and Safety, Sustainability, Roles and Professions, Stakeholder Management |
| Descriptive scope: | 5 PCTEA |
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