Safety Climate Improvement: Case Study in a Chinese Construction Company
Case Study
Zhou, Quan, Fang, Dongping and Mohamed, Sherif. 2011. "Safety Climate Improvement: Case Study in a Chinese Construction Company." Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. 137 (1), pp. 86-95. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000241
| Article Title | Safety Climate Improvement: Case Study in a Chinese Construction Company |
|---|---|
| ERA Journal ID | 40479 |
| Article Category | Case Study |
| Authors | Zhou, Quan, Fang, Dongping and Mohamed, Sherif |
| Journal Title | Journal of Construction Engineering and Management |
| Journal Citation | 137 (1), pp. 86-95 |
| Number of Pages | 10 |
| Year | Jan 2011 |
| Publisher | American Society of Civil Engineers |
| Place of Publication | United States |
| ISSN | 0733-9364 |
| 1943-7862 | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000241 |
| Web Address (URL) | https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000241 |
| Abstract | A positive safety climate can improve employees’ safety awareness and reduce workers’ unsafe behaviors. Having consistent key factors that comprise safety climate is paramount in facilitating the measurement and comparison of safety climate over time which helps identify effective approaches to improve safety performance. This paper examines the consistency of safety climate factor structure and safety climate improvements over time in a Chinese construction company. It adopts a case study approach and reports on using the same safety climate instrument to carry out two surveys, three years apart. The exploratory factor analysis showed that the obtained four-factor structure of safety climate remained consistent across the two surveys. Moreover, the confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated that the second-order factor of safety climate was unchanged. Statistically significant improvements were also found on all four identified factors. The governmental or organizational strategies and/or tactics that could stimulate positive improvements on safety climate factors (referred to as stimulators hereinafter) were then identified via interviews with safety management officers in the company. The most effective stimulators were found to include constituting the safety regulations and safety rules, as well as increasing the intensity of safety training and safety promotion. Implications on the consistent factor structure of safety climate and the stimulators are also discussed. |
| Keywords | Safety climate; Safety regulations; Safety training; Management commitment; Safety attitude; Exploratory factor analysis (EFA); Case study |
| Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
| ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 330202. Building construction management and project planning |
| Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
| Byline Affiliations | Tsinghua University, China |
| Griffith University |
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