Nadhim, E A; Hon, C; Xia, B; Stewart, I and Fang, D (2018) Investigating the relationships between safety climate and safety performance indicators in retrofitting works. Construction Economics and Building, 18(2), pp. 110-129. ISSN 2204-9029
Abstract
Retrofitting works has become increasingly important in the construction industry, as it plays an effective role in providing solutions to maintain, upgrade or change the functions to the existing or aged buildings. Very often, safety issues of retrofitting works are underestimated because there may be unreported accidents in small projects and there is no separate classification of accident statistics for the retrofitting works within the construction industry. As safety climate is widely regarded as a contributing factor to safety performance, the aim of this research was to examine the relationship between safety climate and safety performance in retrofitting works context. The safety climate questionnaire NOSACQ-50 has been employed to measure safety climate in retrofitting works. Field patrols were undertaken to distribute the safety questionnaires to the local worksites that undertake retrofits in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. 264 valid questionnaires were collected. SEM was employed to examine the existence and strength of the relationship between safety climate and safety performance. PLS-SEM was utilised to estimate the parameters of the structural model. The model has exposed a positive relationship between safety climate and safety performance in retrofitting context. This research was the first to examine the relationship between the second order latent variables. A positive relationship (0.60 with 36 percent of explained variance) was found between safety climate and safety performance.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Australia; safety climate; construction industry; retrofitting works; safety performance |
| Index terms: | variance, Brisbane, questionnaire, safety climate, safety issue, statistics, construction industry, estimate, Queensland, small project, retrofitting, safety performance, Australia |
| Subjects: | data collection methods, mathematical modelling, financial and cost management, Geography, health safety and environment, production management, financial risk, renovation and retrofit, industry analysis, occupational health and safety management, measurement and scaling |
| Topics: | Cost Management, Health and Safety, Geographical Context, Project Management, Research Practice, Engineering Principles |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTA |
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