Identification of institutional safety factors affecting safety culture in construction sector in Indonesia

Abstract

The construction sector in Indonesia is faced with the fact that the high number of work accidents. The number of work accidents in Indonesia is among the highest in the ASEAN region. efforts that have been carried out so far in the form of making and updating legislation, technical standards, supervision, guidance, counseling and outreach to increase awareness of company leaders and workers in general about the benefits of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) implementation, are not complete if the coordination of each stakeholder institution (stakeholders) are not implemented properly so that everything runs individually according to their respective interests. The purpose of this study is to identify current OHS institutional conditions in the construction sector. The methodology used is content and construct validation, survey respondents were processed using the Relative Important Index Analysis. the results of this study explain that the realization of a culture of occupational safety and health in Indonesia (0,968) Understanding of occupational safety and health is embedded from an early age to higher education (0,914) Inadequate OHSE HR Competencies (0,856) and Ministry of labor (0,919) as the most dominant indicator in shaping the institutional system in the construction sector in Indonesia