Abstract
The international construction industry has long experienced high rates of occupational incidents resulting in serious injury and death. The high rate of fatal construction accidents has clearly highlighted the importance and urgency of safety management improvement for building and construction sites. This paper analyzed 33 nominated success factors of the site safety management (SSM) of building construction projects using Principle Components Analysis (PCA) to extract the success factors (SFs) of SSM in Taiwan. The internal relationships among these SFs were further explored using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to examine the underlying relationships. The results of this study indicate that there are moderate correlations present between the selected SFs for SSM. Management behaviors, a safe work environment and safety resources, the safety behaviors of workers, and prevention and remedial actions were found to be the major influencers for SSM performance. Furthermore, the study shows that SSM in Taiwan is still overly focused on safe working conditions, to the detriment of workers’ safety perception and training. Further work is required to ensure that safety programs are agile enough to understand and adapt to the factors which influence SSM outcomes.
Highlights
The construction industry brings together a cooperation between many different sub industries and project partner members
The resulting factor is posited as a ‘supervariable’ built by combining survey variables based on relationships
Using contemporary literature on construction site safety management, this study leveraged the results of interviews of industry experts to identify 33 factors to measure construction site safety management
Summary
The construction industry brings together a cooperation between many different sub industries and project partner members. As is well-documented in the construction management literature related to worker safety, the industry is thought to be open, receptive and unique It features layers of subcontracting, engineering participants and complex work types, coupled with the dynamic site characteristics and an operating environment equipped with a multitude of different operation types, which are mostly undertaken by temporary organizations, a high mobility labor pool, on-site management and construction management. This highly dynamic work environment and organizational arrangements leads to frequent accidents resulting in injuries to workers. The study outcomes can help to inform construction enterprises on how to approach safety by a more systematic method
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