Culture change towards construction safety risks, incidences and injuries: best practice experiences
The construction industry has a reputation as one of the most dangerous industries because of its high rates of incidents, injuries and fatalities. Recently, many approaches have been adapted by construction companies but most of them were focused on physical working conditions and safety managem...
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| author | Mahmud, Syamsul Hendra Misnan, Mohd Saidin Wan Mahmood, Wan Yusoff Bakri, Ahmadon |
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| description | The construction industry has a reputation as one of the most dangerous industries because of
its high rates of incidents, injuries and fatalities. Recently, many approaches have been adapted by
construction companies but most of them were focused on physical working conditions and safety
management system/procedure. An improvement to safety will only be achieved if all project stakeholders
recognise the need to change their belief, attitude, commitment and behaviour to create a good safety
culture. This paper presents a literature review to highlight the need for a culture change towards better
construction safety. The paper then presents case studies on two construction management company -
Bovis Lend Lease and Bechtel Corporation as strategies for developing good construction safety culture,
which includes the objectives, strategies, context and implementation process as well as lessons learned. It
is concluded that it is crucially important to develop a good construction safety culture through changing
the employees’ belief, attitude, commitment and behaviour. Therefore construction safety managers need
to adapt more holistic strategies which focus on not only improving physical working environment and
employees’ safety knowledge, but also on shaping employees’ beliefs and attitude which lead to safe
behaviour and ultimately healthy safety culture. |
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| spelling | usm.eprints-346232017-05-26T00:26:27Z http://eprints.usm.my/34623/ Culture change towards construction safety risks, incidences and injuries: best practice experiences Mahmud, Syamsul Hendra Misnan, Mohd Saidin Wan Mahmood, Wan Yusoff Bakri, Ahmadon TH1-9745 Building construction The construction industry has a reputation as one of the most dangerous industries because of its high rates of incidents, injuries and fatalities. Recently, many approaches have been adapted by construction companies but most of them were focused on physical working conditions and safety management system/procedure. An improvement to safety will only be achieved if all project stakeholders recognise the need to change their belief, attitude, commitment and behaviour to create a good safety culture. This paper presents a literature review to highlight the need for a culture change towards better construction safety. The paper then presents case studies on two construction management company - Bovis Lend Lease and Bechtel Corporation as strategies for developing good construction safety culture, which includes the objectives, strategies, context and implementation process as well as lessons learned. It is concluded that it is crucially important to develop a good construction safety culture through changing the employees’ belief, attitude, commitment and behaviour. Therefore construction safety managers need to adapt more holistic strategies which focus on not only improving physical working environment and employees’ safety knowledge, but also on shaping employees’ beliefs and attitude which lead to safe behaviour and ultimately healthy safety culture. 2008-12 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/34623/1/HBP12.pdf Mahmud, Syamsul Hendra and Misnan, Mohd Saidin and Wan Mahmood, Wan Yusoff and Bakri, Ahmadon (2008) Culture change towards construction safety risks, incidences and injuries: best practice experiences. In: 2nd International Conference on Built Environment in Developing Countries., 3rd- 4th December 2008, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang. |
| spellingShingle | TH1-9745 Building construction Mahmud, Syamsul Hendra Misnan, Mohd Saidin Wan Mahmood, Wan Yusoff Bakri, Ahmadon Culture change towards construction safety risks, incidences and injuries: best practice experiences |
| title | Culture change towards construction safety risks, incidences
and injuries: best practice experiences |
| title_full | Culture change towards construction safety risks, incidences
and injuries: best practice experiences |
| title_fullStr | Culture change towards construction safety risks, incidences
and injuries: best practice experiences |
| title_full_unstemmed | Culture change towards construction safety risks, incidences
and injuries: best practice experiences |
| title_short | Culture change towards construction safety risks, incidences
and injuries: best practice experiences |
| title_sort | culture change towards construction safety risks incidences and injuries best practice experiences |
| topic | TH1-9745 Building construction |
| url | http://eprints.usm.my/34623/1/HBP12.pdf |
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