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http://dx.doi.org/10.14346/JKOSOS.2021.36.2.18

A Study on the Evaluation of Safety Culture in Specialty Contractor  

Shin, Sang-Yeon (Department of Civil, Safety and Environmental Engineering, Hankyong National University)
Paik, Sinwon (School of Social Safety System Engineering, Hankyong National University)
Jung, Sung-Lyoung (Department of Civil, Safety and Environmental Engineering, Hankyong National University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.36, no.2, 2021 , pp. 18-25 More about this Journal
Abstract
Specialty contractor facilities, which involve a combination of welding and commissioning, face a high risk of serious accidents such as fire, explosion, and suffocation associated with welding work, nitrogen, and argon use. In such facilities, the organizational safety culture has considerable impact on the frequency of accidents. In this study, a safety culture evaluation was conducted on specialty contractors. NOSACQ-50, a standardized survey method on safety culture, was selected as an assessment tool to evaluate the safety culture in specialized construction companies that could not afford to invest heavily in safety. The self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted with 201 workers of four construction companies and the results were analyzed. It was found that in companies with low safety culture, the occurrence of irrationality was 66.0%, while in companies with high safety culture, the occurrence of irrationality was 42.6%. Thus, the difference in the occurrence of irrationality by safety culture was statistically significant. The difference in safety culture level according to the experience of occurrence of irrationality was also significant. It was also found that the higher the belief in safety management authorization, safety responsibilities of managers, worker safety priorities, and safety system effects, the lower the probability of irrationality.
Keywords
safety culture; NOSACQ-50; specialty construction enterprise; unsafe behavior and condition;
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