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A Study on the Safety Climate and Worker's Safe Work Behavior in Construction Site  

Choi, Soo-Il (Graduate School of Venture, Hoseo University)
Kim, Hong (Department of Safety System Engineering, Hoseo University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.21, no.5, 2006 , pp. 60-71 More about this Journal
Abstract
In recent years, the most safety studies have been focused on identifying the relationship between safety climate and safe work behavior in accordance with the awareness that prime causes of accidents are organizational, managerial, and human factors rather than pure technical failures across the world. This study focused empirical research aimed at finding out the safety climate factors and examining the relationships of the safety climate and safe work behavior in construction site in Korea, too. A 10 numbers of safety climate factors were adapted from the Mohamed's study(2002) and tested using PLS-GRAPH 3.0 expecting same results as Mohamed' study. And then the relationship between safety climate and safe work behavior was examined. Only two safety climate factors-personal risk appreciation and worker's safety competence-were found and a strong positive relationship between safety climate and safe work behavior was identified in this study. Discussed in details about the results and implications and suggested further studies.
Keywords
safety climate; safe work behavior; personal risk appreciation; worker's safety competence;
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