Safety training and positive safety attitude formation in the Australian construction industry

M Loosemore, N Malouf - Safety science, 2019 - Elsevier
Poor safety is a perennial problem for the construction industry worldwide. While there has
been a large amount of research on construction safety training and its importance in …

Safety behaviour and safety management: its influence on the attitudes of workers in the UK construction industry

D Langford, S Rowlinson, E Sawacha - … Construction and Architectural …, 2000 - emerald.com
This paper identifies the critical factors that influence the attitudes of construction workers
towards safe behaviour on construction sites. It studies these attitudes by using a research …

Predicting safety behavior in the construction industry: Development and test of an integrative model

BHW Guo, TW Yiu, VA González - Safety science, 2016 - Elsevier
This study develops and tests an integrative model of construction workers' safety behavior
with an attempt to better understand the mechanisms by which key safety climate factors (ie …

UK construction site safety: discourses of enforcement and engagement

F Sherratt, P Farrell, R Noble - Construction management and …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Developments in safety management on large UK construction sites have seen a paradigm
shift from enforcement-based systems to safety-culture programmes, which seek to engage …

[PDF][PDF] Development of safety culture in the construction industry: A conceptual framework

MS Misnan, AH Mohammed - Proceedings of the 23rd Annual …, 2007 - researchgate.net
The nature of most accidents at the construction sites shows that the construction industry is
unique. Factor involved include human behaviour, different construction sites, the difficulties …

National culture and safe work behaviour of construction workers in Pakistan

S Mohamed, TH Ali, WYV Tam - Safety science, 2009 - Elsevier
It is widely accepted that unsafe behaviour is intrinsically linked to workplace accidents. A
positive correlation exists between workers' safe behaviour and safety climate on …

Empirical investigation of construction safety management activities and performance in Australia

S Mohamed - Safety Science, 1999 - Elsevier
The construction industry seems to suffer from a general inability to manage workplace
health and safety to a level where an achieved improvement in safety performance by a way …

Analysing the underlying factors affecting safety performance in building construction

JBH Yap, WK Lee - Production Planning & Control, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Safety in construction–a comprehensive description of the characteristics of high safety standards in construction work, from the combined perspective of supervisors …

M Törner, A Pousette - Journal of safety research, 2009 - Elsevier
INTRODUCTION: The often applied engineering approach to safety management in the
construction industry needs to be supplemented by organizational measures and measures …

A mixed methods research design for bridging the gap between research and practice in construction safety

PXW Zou, RY Sunindijo, ARJ Dainty - Safety science, 2014 - Elsevier
One perspective on construction safety practice and knowledge sees them as mutually
constituted and intertwined. As such, it is important that construction safety research …