Acknowledgement
Support from Gammon Construction Limited is gratefully acknowledged. We would also like to thank Dr. Reg Macnold for his helpful comments, which led to the improvement of this manuscript.
International conference on construction engineering and project management (국제학술발표논문집)
- 2005.10a
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- Pages.480-485
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- 2005
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- 2508-9048(eISSN)
THE NATURE OF SAFETY CULTURE: A SURVEY OF THE STATE-OF-THE-ART AND PROMOTING A POSITIVE SAFETY CULTURE
- Choudhry M. Rafiq ((Tsinghua-Gammon) Construction Safety Research Center, School of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University) ;
- Fang Dongping ((Tsinghua-Gammon) Construction Safety Research Center, School of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University)
- Published : 2005.10.16
Abstract
This paper reviews the literature on safety culture focusing particularly on research carried out from 1998 onwards. The term 'safety culture' is clarified as it is typically applied to organizations, to safety and particularly to construction safety. Some clarifications in terms of levels of aggregation, positive safety culture and safety performance are provided by presenting appropriate empirical evidences and their theoretical developments. Safety culture is a subset of organizational culture that is thought to influence employees' attitudes and behavior in relation to an organization's ongoing health and safety performance. Implications for future research in the area are addressed, as safety culture has in recent years become the focus of much attention in all industries, and in the construction industry in particular.