Creation of an appropriate safety climate in steel plant construction projects
Keywords:
Safety climate, safety culture, construction project, safety managementAbstract
Despite recent advances in technology and the enforcement of occupational health standards and safety measures, construction projects, especially the steel plants construction projects, still pose construction workers to multiple risks and accidents given the high volume of workload and fast rate of tasks delivery. According to the recent reports, the construction industry has the highest rate of accidents among other industries, which are the most serious in terms of the severity of damages. The safety climate acts as a reference framework for personnel to perceive the safety measures in the workplace and make their behavior compatible with them. Despite numerous studies performed on safety climate, few efforts have been made to investigate the formation of safety climate. To identify safety climate indexes, a descriptive-analytical study was conducted based on the previous studies and their findings and the results were performed to form a safety climate and then the safety atmosphere was studied among the employees of a steel project. For this purpose, a questionnaire consisting of 43 questions with the 7-point Likert scale was developed.
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