Article
Engineering, Industrial
Jin Lee
Summary: Conventional measures of safety climate strength may overlook the significant impact of within-workgroup safety climate perceptions, and it is essential to consider both upper and lower bounds of safety climate perceptions for effective safety climate management.
Article
Management
Dong Chul Shim, Hyun Hee Park, Kee Hoon Chung
Summary: This study examines the impact of servant leadership, ethical climate, and performance-oriented climate on workgroup innovative behaviors in public organizations. The results suggest that servant leadership and ethical climate have positive relationships with workgroup innovative behavior overall. Additionally, performance-oriented climate moderates the relationship between servant leadership and workgroup innovative behavior.
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Ergonomics
Byungjoo Choi, SangHyun Lee
Summary: This study develops and tests a research model that explains the psychological mechanisms behind construction workers' safety participation. The results indicate that project identification mediates the effects of transformational leadership and communication climate on safety participation.
JOURNAL OF SAFETY RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Mohammad Tanvi Newaz, Marcus Jefferies, Peter Rex Davis, Manikam Pillay
Summary: Despite extensive research on psychological contracts, there has been limited exploration on how a psychological contract can be applied to safety in the construction industry. This study validated a Psychological Contract of Safety (PCS) scale within the construction industry by collecting data from a construction project in Sydney, Australia. The findings revealed the presence of a PCS in construction safety settings and recommended a two-factor model involving employer and employee obligations.
ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Business
Maureen L. Ambrose, Darryl B. Rice, David M. Mayer
Summary: Research on justice climate explores its impact on workgroup outcomes like job satisfaction, commitment, and performance. This study suggests that fair coworker behavior mediates the relationship between justice climate and outcomes, with workgroup structure potentially influencing this mediated relationship. Two studies provide support for the mediating effect of fair coworker behavior and the proposed moderated mediation model, with implications for justice and climate research.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2021)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Xueqing Wang, Yuhan Qiao, Dan Wang, Zitong Sheng, Mohammad Tanvi Newaz
Summary: The study found that felt safety responsibility and safety-specific trust in supervisors partially mediate the impact of PCS on safety compliance and safety participation. Interventions should focus on improving employees' perception of PCS to support their engagement in safety behavior.
JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Qiuhao Xie, Nini Xia, Gaosheng Yang
Summary: This study examines how work-family conflict, including work-to-family conflict (WFC) and family-to-work conflict (FWC), influences the safety behavior of construction workers. The findings show that WFC has negative effects on safety compliance and safety participation, while FWC is only negatively related to safety participation. Work engagement mediates the relationships between WFC and safety participation, as well as between FWC and safety behavior. The study also reveals that family supportive supervisor behavior buffers the negative relationship between WFC and safety participation through work engagement. Overall, this study sheds light on the influence mechanism and governance path of work-family conflict on safety behavior in the construction industry.
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT IN ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Xiuyu Wu, Qinzhen Qian, Meng Zhang
Summary: Leaders' behavior has a critical impact on workers' safety behavior. This study found that transformational leadership has a positive effect on safety participation when social capital is high, while transactional leadership can promote safety compliance and organizational-oriented safety participation, with social capital moderating these relationships.
ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURAL MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Quy Lan Bao, Si Van-Tien Tran, Jaehun Yang, Akeem Pedro, Hai Chien Pham, Chansik Park
Summary: This paper proposes a token incentive mechanism based on blockchain technology for VR-based safety training, aiming to motivate employees to participate in safety training and improve their safety awareness. Interactive system trials show that the proposed framework can effectively motivate employees to engage in safety training and enhance their safety awareness and knowledge before performing tasks in construction sites.
AUTOMATION IN CONSTRUCTION
(2024)
Review
Engineering, Industrial
Nini Xia, Sichao Ding, Tao Ling, Yuchun Tang
Summary: This study provides a systematic literature review of construction safety climate in terms of its definition, measurement, antecedents, and consequences. Findings show that there is no consensus on the definition and measurement of construction safety climate, and little attention has been given to its antecedents and underlying mechanisms. The influential authors in this field are identified, and questionnaire and safety behavior are the keywords most closely related to safety climate. The study also presents potential research directions and methods to support the development of construction safety climate.
ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Mehmet Peker, Onur C. Dogru, Guelguen Mese
Summary: This study investigates whether employee perceptions of supervisor behavioral integrity for safety moderate the relationship between top-management safety climate and safety performance, and examines the mediating effects of safety motivation. The results support the replicated relationship between top-management safety climate and safety behavior, as well as the mediated relationships through safety motivation. Additionally, the findings indicate that the mediated relationships between top-management safety climate and safety behaviors through safety motivation are stronger for employees with high supervisor behavioral integrity for safety.
SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK
(2022)
Review
Engineering, Industrial
Huihua Chen, Hujun Li, Yang Miang Goh
Summary: This study examines the inconsistencies in definitions, measurement, and factor structures of Construction Safety Climate (CSC), and suggests future research agenda to improve Construction Worker Safety Behavior (CWSB) based on evaluating the relationship between CSC and CWSB. The study also proposes a perception-based definition for CSC focusing on safety management system and identifies different categories of CSC differentiated based on organizational levels. Additionally, a CSC factor structure is proposed using validated items from past CSC scales to address existing inconsistencies, and different mediators influencing the relationship between CSC and CWSB are compiled for future studies.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Changquan He, Zhen Hu, Yuzhong Shen, Chunlin Wu
Summary: Safety climate and safety behavior are crucial for construction safety. However, there is a lack of systematic research on the influence of demographic characteristics on construction worker safety in the context of China's construction industry. This study examined the effects of five demographic factors on safety indicators among Chinese construction workers. The results reveal significant influences of demographic factors on safety climate and construction worker safety behavior, emphasizing the importance of considering demographic characteristics in formulating safety measures.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Fei Dai, Abiodun Olorunfemi, Weibing Peng, Dongping Cao, Xiaochun Luo
Summary: This research explored the feasibility and potential of using mixed reality to enhance safety risk communication on construction sites. By prototyping a holographic application and conducting trials and feedback from potential users in the construction industry, it was found that mixed reality has the potential for visualization, communication, and remote collaboration of safety-related issues.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Weiyi Cong, Hong Xue, Huakang Liang, Yikun Su, Shoujian Zhang
Summary: This study developed an instrument to assess the communication performance of construction workers and verified a three-dimensional construct of informal safety communication including citizenship safety communication, self-needed safety communication, and participatory safety communication. The developed scale showed acceptable reliability and validity, and can help supervisors enhance informal safety communication in the workplace.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Sainan Lyu, Carol K. H. Hon, Albert P. C. Chan, Arshad Ali Javed, Rita Peihua Zhang, Francis K. W. Wong
Summary: Previous studies have highlighted communication barriers as a major safety issue for ethnic minority (EM) workers. This study aimed to model safety communication networks of EM crews and explore their relationships with individual attributes, safety climate, near misses, and injuries. Findings showed that language proficiency, network density, and reciprocity level were key factors in distinguishing high and low safety performing EM crews. EM management received more safety information from EM workers than local management, and there was a significant relationship between the centrality of EM workers in the networks and their age, perceived safety priority, and language ability.
ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Clara Man Cheung, Rita Peihua Zhang, Qingbin Cui, Shu-Chien Hsu
Summary: This study explored how job characteristics and personal resources influence construction leaders' engagement in safety leadership. The results showed that job characteristics and personal resources significantly contribute to safety-specific transformational leadership.
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Payam Pirzadeh, Helen Lingard
Summary: The study investigated the health and well-being experiences of professional/managerial workers engaged in teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing a gradual decline in mental well-being. A positive relationship was found between work-life satisfaction and mental well-being, with factors like work hours and pressure impacting mental well-being through satisfaction with work-life balance as a mediator.
JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Payam Pirzadeh, Helen Lingard, Nick Blismas
Summary: This paper emphasizes the importance of effective interaction among project participants for high-quality design outcomes, proposing a framework that simultaneously examines decision interdependencies, social interaction patterns, and participants' influence. The case study demonstrates that positive constructability outcomes can be achieved through alignment between information interdependencies of design decisions and supporting interaction patterns.
JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Clara Man Cheung, Rita Peihua Zhang, Ran Wang, Shu-Chien Hsu, Patrick Manu
Summary: Group-level safety climate is a leading indicator of safety performance in the construction industry. This study examines the collective influence of multilevel factors on group-level safety climate. The results show that organizational-level safety climate, coworker support, and supervisory safety-specific transformational leadership significantly contribute to group-level safety climate. Additionally, supervisory safety-specific transformational leadership and coworker support positively affect individual psychological capital, and psychological capital moderates the relationship between supervisory safety-specific transformational leadership and group-level safety climate.
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT IN ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Rita Peihua Zhang, Paul Bowen
Summary: The demanding work environment in the construction industry has led to studies on work-family conflict among construction professionals. This study focused on the bidirectional nature of work-family conflict and proposed an integrated research model to examine this interface in South African construction professionals. Findings suggest that work demands and role blurring are influenced by job position and level of work authority, and organizations should create a supportive workplace environment and implement effective work design to reduce excessive work-family conflict experienced by employees.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jeppe Z. N. Ajslev, Jeppe L. Moller, Malene F. Andersen, Payam Pirzadeh, Helen Lingard
Summary: Occupational safety and health in construction work is a problematic issue, and the role of OSH coordinators in improving this has not been studied extensively. This study uses the hierarchy of controls to evaluate the impact of OSH coordinators' work and finds that most implemented measures are in administrative and engineering controls. This may explain why increased focus on OSH coordination has not led to improved outcomes in construction.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Business
David Oswald, Helen Lingard, Rita Peihua Zhang
Summary: This study explores supervisor safety leadership in the context of construction sites in Australia using an ethnographic approach. The findings suggest that leadership behaviors in this context may differ from theoretical ideal types and that ethnographic insights into supervisors' interactions with workers contribute to understanding transformational and transactional leadership in practice.
CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Paul Bowen, Rita Peihua Zhang
Summary: Construction workers in South Africa are at risk for drug abuse, which is associated with poor decision-making and risky behavior. The present study examined the prevalence of drug abuse among construction workers using the Drug Use Disorders Identification Test (DUDIT). The results showed that approximately 10% of participants reported substance use, and the majority of employees were determined to not have drug-related problems. The DUDIT demonstrated good psychometric properties, although two items performed poorly and need further investigation.
PSYCHOLOGY HEALTH & MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Helen Lingard, Rita Peihua Zhang, Christine LaBond, Jack Clarke, Tinh Doan
Summary: This study examines the impact of supervisor-apprentice communication on the health, safety, and wellbeing of apprentices in the construction industry. The findings suggest that the interactions between supervisors and apprentices play a crucial role in safety learning and work execution. The qualitative insights provide valuable information on the role of supervisor communication in shaping apprentices' understanding of safety and their acceptance of risks. The study highlights the importance of considering the social context of the workplace and ensuring supportive communication for positive safety outcomes and behaviors.
JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Payam Pirzadeh, Helen Lingard, Rita Peihua Zhang
Summary: This study examines the relationship between job quality and mental health among manual/nonmanagerial construction workers of different age groups. The findings suggest that adverse job conditions have a negative impact on workers' mental health, with middle-aged workers experiencing the greatest decline. Age-related differences were also identified in the specific aspects of job quality that are related to mental health. These findings highlight the importance of developing targeted approaches to protect and promote the mental health of construction workers of different age groups.
JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Sociology
Helen Lingard, Michelle Turner
Summary: The qualitative investigation explores how bodily pain impacts work-life balance among manual/non-managerial workers in the Australian construction industry. Findings suggest that pain negatively affects family life, social activities, and leisure activities, leading to work-life conflict. Workers regularly seek treatment and adapt their activities to cope with pain, indicating a need for organizational initiatives to consider the physical demands of work in promoting work-life balance.
COMMUNITY WORK & FAMILY
(2022)