This paper provides strategies for improving construction safety performance through the
analysis of numerical profiles of companies and projects with varying levels of safety …

The construction industry has experienced a great deal of safety improvement after the
Congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970. In the last twenty years …

The Malaysian construction industry is stigma-laden 'dangerous, dirty and difficult'(3 D) with
a high number of blue-collar foreign workers. Poor safety performance is undermining the …

The construction industry on average has a higher rate of occupational injury than most
other industries. However, steps can be taken to reduce worker risk through the effective …

This paper presents a systematic Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) based approach for
Prospective Safety Performance Evaluation (PSPE) on construction sites, with causal …

Construction safety and health management has improved significantly following the
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. In response to this legislation, contractors …

The transient, unique, and complex nature of construction projects makes safety
management exceptionally difficult. Most construction safety efforts are applied in an …

The construction industry experiences high injury and fatality rates and is far from achieving
a zero-injury goal. Thus, effective safety management systems are critical to ongoing efforts …

The philosophy of safety management is a relatively new method of controlling safety
policies, procedures, and practices within a company. This philosophy is currently being …

Safety leading indicators are measures of the safety management system that correlate with
injury rates. The literature on the topic is dispersed and equivocal in the definition …