Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Bumjin Han, Seunghyun Son, Sunkuk Kim
Summary: Recent studies in various fields have used the concept of safety climate to explain safety accidents. Construction industry studies have shown a correlation between higher safety climate levels and lower accident rates. Three methods are commonly used to measure safety climate: literature survey, questionnaire, and data analysis. Further research is needed to improve the methodology of measuring safety climate.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Hernani Veloso Neto, Pedro Arezes, Beda Barkokebas Junior
Summary: Values, attitudes, and safety behaviors expressed by workers are crucial for determining a company's success in safety and health at work. The research findings indicated an overall positive safety climate within the company, with the quality of safety communication being an area for improvement. Factors such as safety training and communication quality have a favorable impact on worker safety maturity and risk perception.
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)
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.
Review
Construction & Building Technology
Hamed Golzad, Atefeh Teimoory, Seyed Javid Mousavi, Aya Bayramova, David J. Edwards
Summary: The construction industry has a high prevalence of suicides and mental health problems. This study conducts a systematic review of literature published since 2003 to identify potential causes of mental health problems in the industry. The findings highlight high job demand as the most significant contributor, followed by interpersonal relationships, low job control, low job support, and physical status. The study also identifies research gaps in organization participation factors and management commitment and priority. Overall, this study provides a comprehensive theoretical model of mental health causations in the construction industry.
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Junying Liu, Yiwei Wang, Zhixiu Wang
Summary: The study investigates the effects of project, regulatory, and reputational pressures on compliance attitudes in construction companies, as well as the moderating effects of organizational ethical climates. The results indicate that project pressure negatively influences compliance attitudes, while regulatory pressure and reputational pressure have positive effects. Organizational ethical climates also play a role in influencing these relationships.
JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Ergonomics
Moien Kiani, Mohsen Asgari, Faezeh Abbas Gohari, Zahra Rezvani
Summary: This study investigated safety climate and its relationship with demographic variables in a power distribution company. The findings showed that management commitment had a significant impact on safety climate and age was related to safety climate. The study suggested that improving safety climate could be achieved through efficient training programs and reducing work pressure.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Business, Finance
Kiryoung Lee, Juik Cho
Summary: We develop indices of Twitter-based Chinese Climate Uncertainty (TC-CU) and Climate Policy Uncertainty (TC-CPU) and find that they are closely associated with climate change-related events such as presidential announcements, UN climate change conferences, warnings about melting glaciers in China's Qilian mountains, and climate concerns regarding bitcoin mining. TC-CPU can predict future US climate uncertainty and attention measures, but US measures do not predict Chinese climate change measures. Moreover, TC-CU (TC-CPU) negatively predicts equity returns of small (value) firms. Finally, we find that shocks to TC-CU lead to a decline in CO2 emissions.
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ECONOMICS & FINANCE
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Alena Mezentseva, Francisco J. Gracia, Inmaculada Silla, Mario Martinez-Corcoles
Summary: This study examined the antecedents of mindful organizing, including empowering leadership, safety culture, and team safety climate, in a sample of Air Traffic Management company employees. The results showed that safety climate mediated the relationship between empowering leadership and mindful organizing, indicating the important role of a strong safety climate in promoting mindful organizing. However, the moderating role of safety culture was not confirmed.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Divine Tuinese Novieto
Summary: This study investigates the relationship between safety climate, occupational safety behavior, and psychological ownership, and finds that safety climate positively predicts construction professional's safety behavior and psychological ownership. Furthermore, psychological ownership is found to predict occupational safety behavior and mediate the relationship between safety climate and occupational safety behavior.
ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Sungjin Kim, Siyuan Song, Donghoon Lee, Daeyoung Kim, Sangsoo Lee, Javier Irizarry
Summary: Construction safety climates reflect organizational safety behavior and commitment, employees' safety perceptions and attitudes, and supervisory and support environments. Survey results reveal that the most significant factors for enhancing safety climate include improvement in the support environment, reduction in work pressure, increasing worker competence, and enhancing worker involvement.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Wei Tong Chen, Hew Cameron Merrett, Ying-Hua Huang, Theresia Avila Bria, Ying-Hsiu Lin
Summary: The study found a significant positive relationship between safety climate and personnel safety behavior on building construction sites in Taiwan, with SC level positively impacting SB participation and overall safety perceptions. Higher SC cognition among Taiwan's construction workers resulted in better SB performance. Safety commitment and safety training had the strongest relationship with SB, with safety training having a deep impact on SB cognition.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Changquan He, Brenda McCabe, Guangshe Jia
Summary: This study explores the relationship between leader-member exchange and construction worker safety behavior, along with the mediating roles of safety climate and psychological capital. Results show the cascading impact of leader-member exchange on safety behavior, highlighting the necessity of initiating both organizational and individual safety interventions simultaneously. Suggestions for enhancing construction safety performance include cultivating supervisor-worker exchanges, fostering positive safety climate, and boosting construction workers' psychological capital.
Article
Ergonomics
Yeong-Tak Kwon, Seunghyun Son, Sunkuk Kim, Sun-Geun Ha, Kiyoung Son
Summary: This study utilized the NOSACQ-50 to evaluate the safety perception of workers on a South Korean construction site, finding a high overall safety perception, particularly in terms of the efficacy of the safety system. Recommendations were made for improvements and interventions to maintain a safety climate among workgroups.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Helen Lingard, Tracy Cooke, Greg Zelic, James Harley
Summary: This research examines causal and contributing factors to crane safety incidents in the Australian construction industry, revealing how these factors interact at multiple levels. Understanding these interactions can inform the selection and implementation of 'upstream' prevention measures for crane safety incidents in construction.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Nor Haslinda Abas, Nick Blismas, Helen Lingard
Summary: This study developed a risk assessment model based on the combination of argumentation theory and energy damage model, providing reasoning support for construction designers to understand the impact of their design decisions on worker's safety and health, and mitigate the risk to an acceptable level.
ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
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
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
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
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Khwaja Mateen Mazher, Albert P. C. Chan, Rafiq M. Choudhry, Hafiz Zahoor, David J. Edwards, Ahmed M. Ghaithan, Awsan Mohammed, Mubashir Aziz
Summary: The research identifies and validates measures of effective risk management in PPP projects in a developing country, highlighting the importance of expert stakeholders, comprehensive organizational structures, and supportive legal frameworks. The findings emphasize the significance of PPP-specific artifacts and procurement activities for successful risk management, with a focus on multi-organizational collaboration throughout the project life cycle.
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
Construction & Building Technology
Ghanim Saqib, Muhammad Usman Hassan, Muhammad Umer Zubair, Rafiq M. M. Choudhry
Summary: Incident reporting in the construction industry has been the focus of safety experts to prevent future hazards. The adoption of an electronic incident reporting system (E-IRS) has the potential to enhance incident reporting frequency by overcoming barriers. This study examines the factors influencing the adoption of E-IRS in the construction industry of developing countries using the technology acceptance model (TAM). The results suggest that perceived ease of use and trust are critical determinants of E-IRS acceptance.
JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
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)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Payam Pirzadeh, Helen Lingard, Nick Blismas
Article
Business
Michelle Turner, Helen Lingard
CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS
(2020)
Article
Business
Helen Lingard, Ron Wakefield, Derek Walker
CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS
(2020)
Article
Management
Rebecca Jing Yang, Chathuri Lakshika Gunarathna, Vanessa McDermott, Helen Lingard, Hongying Zhao, Chengyang Liu
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
(2020)