Employee engagement, boredom and frontline construction workers feeling safe in their workplace
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Article Title | Employee engagement, boredom and frontline construction workers feeling safe in their workplace |
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ERA Journal ID | 13370 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Whiteoak, John W. and Mohamed, Sherif |
Journal Title | Accident Analysis and Prevention |
Journal Citation | 93, pp. 291-298 |
Number of Pages | 8 |
Year | Aug 2016 |
Publisher | Emerald |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0001-4575 |
1879-2057 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2015.11.001 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457515301160 |
Abstract | Systems thinking is a philosophy currently prevalent within construction safety literature that is applied to understand and improve safety in sociotechnical systems. Among systems, the site-project organizational system is of particular interest to this paper. Using focus group and survey feedback research to learn about how safety incidents effect levels of construction workers engagement this paper reveals how a safety incident provides an opportunity to create a potential quality (productivity) upgrade within an organization. The research approach involved a qualitative study involving 27 frontline supervisors and a follow-up survey completed by 207 frontline workers in the Australian Asphalt and Pavement Industry. The focus group interviews supported the articulation of the concepts of tacit safety, explicit safety, situational awareness, foresight ability, practical intelligence and crew synergy. Our findings indicate that having regular shift changes and other job site workers being fatigued are influential on perceptions of tacit safety. An individual's foresight ability was found to be the most potent predictor of worker perceptions of work engagement. The paper explains that relatively small improvements in worker perceptions of safety can bring about significant improvements in employee engagement and productivity. |
Keywords | Tacit safety; Explicit safety; Employee engagement; Group potency; Boredom; Conscientiousness |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 350505. Occupational and workplace health and safety |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | University of the Sunshine Coast |
Griffith University |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/w13y9/employee-engagement-boredom-and-frontline-construction-workers-feeling-safe-in-their-workplace
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