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http://dx.doi.org/10.5345/JKIBC.2019.19.4.373

Comparison Analysis for the Safety Climate Level of Construction Company According to Business Size in South Korea  

Son, Seung-Hyun (Department of Architectural Engineering, Kyung Hee University)
Ha, Sun-Geun (Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Ulsan)
Choi, Sang-Cheol (Department of Architectural Engineering, Kyung Hee University)
Kim, Sun-Kuk (Department of Architectural Engineering, Kyung Hee University)
Son, Ki-Young (Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Ulsan)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction / v.19, no.4, 2019 , pp. 373-382 More about this Journal
Abstract
In order to reduce the accident rate of construction in South Korea, governments and its affiliates have been tried to establish a safety culture, however they reached the limit. In addition, researchers recently have conducted regarding the safety climate and concluded that safety climate effect on the safety performance. Although organizational culture and enterprise types are different based on business size, they generalized the level of safety climate with a group only. Therefore, in order to solve this issue, the objective of this study is to analyze the safety climate level of construction company depending on business size in South Korea. In addition, the improvements are suggested on the level of safety climate after problems are drawn from considering organizational culture, enterprise type and construction industry in South Korea. In the future, this study will be used as a baseline for the effects of the safety climate on the safety performance in construction site based on business size.
Keywords
NOSACQ-50; safety climate; organizational culture; t-test; survey;
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