Abstract
The construction industry in Saudi Arabia relies prominently on migrant workers of multi-sociodemographic characteristics with different perceptions of a safety climate. The exploration of the perceptions regarding the safety climate among various groups of migrant workers may help identify effective means of improving safety levels at construction sites in Saudi Arabia. This study aimed to examine the effects of multi-sociodemographic characteristics of construction site personnel on their perceptions of the factors that influence the safety climate at construction sites in Saudi Arabia. Data were collected from 401 construction site workers, employed at ongoing construction project sites in Saudi Arabia, using a designed questionnaire. A generalized, linear model approach was applied, using the single ordinal logistic regression method, to analyze the collected data. The results revealed the significant sets of sociodemographic characteristics and their associated subgroups that had significant effects on the perception of importance assigned to each safety climate-influencing factor. These findings provide a better understanding of the views of construction site personnel on the safety climate and can assist construction industry decision-makers, safety policy designers, government agencies, and stakeholders when designing better-targeted enhancement plans and strategies to improve the safety climate of construction sites, based on the sociodemographic makeup of the personnel at each construction site.
Highlights
Construction is considered to be a high-risk industry that is subjected to work-related illnesses, injuries, and deaths [1], and is associated with some of the highest reported occurrences of occupational accidents [2]
Significant effects among different construction personnel regarding safety climate factors are calculated and discussed, which will facilitate the recognition of different levels of safety climate perception among various construction site personnel and assist construction industry stakeholders in the development of methods for enhancing safety levels at construction sites
For the appraisal of risks and hazards as a safety climate-influencing factor, the results presented in Table 4 and Table S2 show that education and age are the significant sociodemographic characteristics that determine the importance of this factor
Summary
Construction is considered to be a high-risk industry that is subjected to work-related illnesses, injuries, and deaths [1], and is associated with some of the highest reported occurrences of occupational accidents [2]. Many work-related illnesses and injuries can be prevented if proper preventative strategies are in place, and the key factors resulting in these hazardous events must be studied to determine how they can be prevented. This task represents one of the most significant objectives of the construction industry—to enhance occupational health and safety [4]. Construction workers are the most vulnerable members of the construction industry, exposed to greater occupational health and safety hazards than other construction personnel.
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