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Measuring Safety Climate of a Construction Company
- Source :
- Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. 135:890-899
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2009.
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Abstract
- Safety climate can benefit contractors, specialty contractors, and owners of industries by providing them with the knowledge of attitudes and perceptions that can help to consistently achieve better safety performance. The objective of this research was to determine safety climate that would enhance safety culture and positively impact perceived safety performance on construction projects. A safety climate questionnaire survey was conducted on the construction sites of a leading construction company and its subcontractors in Hong Kong. Approximately, 1,500 hard copy questionnaires were distributed and the response rate was excellent, resulting in 1,120 valid questionnaires being collected from 22 construction projects. By means of factor analysis, two underlying safety climate factors were extracted, accounting for 43.9% of the total variance. Multiple regression analysis confirmed that these climate factors, “management commitment and employee involvement” and “inappropriate safety procedure and work pra...
- Subjects :
- Response rate (survey)
Engineering
business.industry
Strategy and Management
Questionnaire
Regression analysis
Building and Construction
Safety climate
Work (electrical)
Industrial relations
Operations management
Safety procedure
Safety culture
Hard copy
business
Civil and Structural Engineering
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19437862 and 07339364
- Volume :
- 135
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........e632fd0712e71db25f436f1992a96676