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dc.contributor.authorZhou, Quan
dc.contributor.authorFang, Dongping
dc.contributor.authorMohamed, Sherif
dc.contributor.editorJesus M. de la Garza
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:19:22Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:19:22Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.date.modified2012-02-15T04:41:56Z
dc.identifier.issn0733-9364
dc.identifier.doi10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000241
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/42662
dc.description.abstractA 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.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAmerican Society of Civil Engineers
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom86
dc.relation.ispartofpageto95
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Construction Engineering and Management
dc.relation.ispartofvolume137
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCivil engineering
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBuilding
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBuilding construction management and project planning
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommercial services
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4005
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3302
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode330202
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3504
dc.titleSafety Climate Improvement: Case Study in a Chinese Construction Company
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2011
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorMohamed, Sherif A.


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