Hubner, Marilyn (2016) Constructing safety training: Foundations of attitudes and perceptions of the construction site supervisor. PhD thesis, Victoria University, Australia.
Abstract
Safety-training interventions are common across all Australian workplaces due to the legislative requirement to provide a safe working environment. As a safety practitioner, I often work with workers who are forced to attend training programs and, as a consequence, do not want to participate. In my ten years of delivering safety training, attitudes of 'boring', 'irrelevant', and 'already know it all' are common barriers to effective training. My investigation into the construction industry sought to unearth the foundational principles that determine attitudes and perceptions of supervisors toward safety training, and trace the impact that these attitudes have on organisational values and safety practice. I sought to reveal how the attitudes and perceptions of construction site supervisors can be mediated to produce effective safety-training situations and, as such, move toward reducing the injuries and fatalities that plague the construction industry.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | occupational health and safety; commercial construction industry; Australia; workplace learning; training interventions improvement |
| Index terms: | workplace learning, organizational value, program, practitioner, occupational health and safety, injury, construction industry, construction site supervisor, safety training, fatalities, supervisor, foundations, investigation, commercial construction, Australia |
| Subjects: | health conditions and diseases, occupational health and safety management, industry analysis, software systems, health risk and incident analysis, professional development, business, data collection methods, structural engineering, Geography, construction type, practitioner |
| Topics: | Health and Safety, Engineering Principles, Geographical Context, Education, Roles and Professions, Construction Technology, Information Management, Research Practice, Organizational Design, Digital Applications |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTA |
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