Safety Culture Model and Influencing Factors Analysis in Construction Enterprises of China

The construction industry is one of the most injury-prone industries and an increasing number of scholars are paying great attention to safety culture in this industry. This study aims to construct a conceptual model of safety culture through recognizing the significance of related influencing factors, helping improve the safety condition of construction enterprises. First, we review the related concepts and the structure of safety culture. Then we propose the level of safety culture in Chinese construction enterprises and construct safety culture model based on the structure of safety culture. After that, we extract several influence factors in connection with safety culture from the original literature and utilize the questionnaire to collect data in spot investigation. And factor analysis is used to process the collected data to get the affecting coefficient that the different influence factors contribute to safety culture. Through analyzing the collected data, we improved the conceptual model in order to reflect the influence of different factors on safety culture better. And construction enterprises can get some enlightens from the improved model when they engage in improving the safety condition of their enterprises.

[1]  Dominic Cooper,et al.  Improving Safety Culture: A Practical Guide , 1997 .

[2]  A. Hopkins.  Safety, Culture and Risk , 2005 .

[3]  Tor-Olav Nævestad,et al.  Evaluating a safety culture campaign: Some lessons from a Norwegian case , 2010 .

[4]  Zohar Dov,et al.  Safety Climate and Beyond: A Multi-Level Multi-Climate Framework , 2008 .

[5]  Andrew Hale,et al.  Culture's confusions , 2000 .

[6]  A. Glendon,et al.  Perspectives on safety culture , 2000 .

[7]  Ann Williamson,et al.  The development of a measure of safety climate: The role of safety perceptions and attitudes , 1997 .

[8]  Y. Aharoni.  Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind , 1992 .

[9]  H. Tohidi,et al.  Organizational culture and leadership , 2012 .

[10]  Daniel W. Halpin,et al.  Predictive Tool for Estimating Accident Risk , 2003 .

[11]  M. Crum,et al.  Management practices as antecedents of safety culture within the trucking industry: similarities and differences by hierarchical level. , 2003, Journal of safety research.

[12]  N. Pidgeon,et al.  Man-made disasters: Why technology and organizations (sometimes) fail. , 2000 .

[13]  S. A. Silva,et al.  OSCI: an organisational and safety climate inventory , 2004 .

[14]  Patrick T. W. Hudson,et al.  Implementing a safety culture in a major multi-national , 2007 .

[15]  Lee T. Ostrom,et al.  Assessing safety culture , 2009 .

[16]  N. Gregg,et al.  1,2-dichloroethane Criteria document for an occupational exposure limit , 1993 .

[17]  Frank W. Guldenmund,et al.  The use of questionnaires in safety culture research – an evaluation , 2007 .

[18]  Dongping Fang,et al.  The nature of safety culture: A survey of the state-of-the-art , 2007 .

[19]  Allan P. Jones,et al.  Psychological climate: Dimensions and relationships of individual and aggregated work environment perceptions☆ , 1979 .

[20]  F. Guldenmund.  The nature of safety culture: a review of theory and research , 2000 .

[21]  D. Zohar.  Modifying supervisory practices to improve subunit safety: a leadership-based intervention model. , 2002, The Journal of applied psychology.

[22]  D. Fang,et al.  Why operatives engage in unsafe work behavior: Investigating factors on construction sites , 2008 .

[23]  U Varonen,et al.  The safety climate and its relationship to safety practices, safety of the work environment and occupational accidents in eight wood-processing companies. , 2000, Accident; analysis and prevention.

[24]  M. D. Cooper.  Towards a model of safety culture , 2000 .

[25]  S. Yule,et al.  The role of national culture in determining safety performance: Challenges for the global oil and gas industry , 2009 .

[26]  William H. Glick,et al.  Conceptualizing and Measuring Organizational and Psychological Climate: Pitfalls in Multilevel Research , 1985 .

[27]  Alistair Cheyne,et al.  Assessing safety culture in offshore environments. , 2000 .

[28]  Bernhard Wilpert,et al.  The Relevance of Safety Culture for Nuclear Power Operations , 2001 .

[29]  D. Zohar.  Safety climate in industrial organizations: theoretical and applied implications. , 1980, The Journal of applied psychology.

[30]  N. Pidgeon.  SAFETY CULTURE: KEY THEORETICAL ISSUES , 1998 .

[31]  E. Kelloway,et al.  Development and test of a model linking safety-specific transformational leadership and occupational safety. , 2002, The Journal of applied psychology.

[32]  Lawrence R. Murphy,et al.  A short scale for measuring safety climate , 2008 .

[33]  D Díaz-Cabrera,et al.  An evaluation of a new instrument to measure organisational safety culture values and practices. , 2007, Accident; analysis and prevention.

[34]  Marion Gillen,et al.  Perceived safety climate, job demands, and coworker support among union and nonunion injured construction workers. , 2002, Journal of safety research.

[35]  J. Johnson,et al.  Progenitors of dorsal commissural interneurons are defined by MATH1 expression. , 1998, Development.

[36]  T. Probst,et al.  Organizational injury rate underreporting: the moderating effect of organizational safety climate. , 2008, The Journal of applied psychology.

[37]  Christian Koch,et al.  Integration, differentiation and ambiguity in safety cultures , 2004 .

[38]  W. A. Kerr,et al.  Psychological climate and accidents in an automotive plant. , 1951 .

[39]  T. Cox,et al.  The structure of employee attitudes to safety: A European example , 1991 .

[40]  Kathryn Mearns,et al.  Measuring safety climate: identifying the common features☆ , 2000 .

[41]  José Célio Silveira Andrade,et al.  A safety culture maturity model for petrochemical companies in Brazil , 2010 .

[42]  Yihong Wang,et al.  Application of Factor Restructuring Analysis in Enterprise Safety Culture Evaluation , 2012 .

[43]  Z. Irani,et al.  Total quality management and corporate culture: constructs of organisational excellence , 2004 .

[44]  Tr Lee,et al.  Perceptions, attitudes and behaviour : the vital elements of a safety culture , 1996 .

[45]  Michael Baram,et al.  Safety culture and behavioral change at the workplace , 2007 .

[46]  Kathryn Mearns,et al.  Safety climate, safety management practice and safety performance in offshore environments , 2003 .