Zulkeflee, A A; Faisol, N; Ismail, F and Ismail, N A A (2022) Safety compliances enhancement: Foreign labours behaviour in the Malaysian construction site. Journal of Construction in Developing Countries, 27(1), pp. 153-171. ISSN 1823-6499
Abstract
Foreign labours workforce has long been dominating the Malaysian construction industry at the operational level as numerous occupational safeties literatures have reflected most of construction accidents are caused by poor human behaviours. Undeniably, the existence of proper safety behaviour would influence good safety compliance among the construction foreign labours. The purpose of this study is to examine the key issues affecting the safety compliance behaviour enhancement of construction foreign labours in the Malaysian construction site. For the present research, nine case studies were conducted by using semi- structured interviews to obtain data from the informants who are mainly site safety personnel. These personnel were working very closely with the construction foreign labours. The findings of this research reveals that there are five key issues that would influence the safety compliances enhancement among the foreign labours: (1) Emotional evoke, (2) Leader as example, (3) Forerunner within the same ethnicity, (4) Supervision execution and (5) Safety prioritisation. Therefore, these key issues have proven that there is a significant relationship between the workers' behaviours and consequences of an act.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | foreign labour; human behaviour; personnel; workforce; construction site; compliance; safety; supervision; Malaysia; case studies; interview |
| Index terms: | compliance, interview, personnel, construction site, human behaviour, construction accident, foreign labour, Malaysia, case study, safety behaviour, occupational safety, construction industry, supervision |
| Subjects: | control systems, health behaviours and lifestyles, business, data collection methods, work location, health safety and environment, Geography, management, industry analysis, occupational health and safety management |
| Topics: | Health and Safety, Geographical Context, Project Management, Research Practice, Human Resources, International Construction, Site Management |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTE |
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