Construction Research Congress 2020
Owners’ Safety Management Behaviors in Construction
Publication: Construction Research Congress 2020: Safety, Workforce, and Education
ABSTRACT
Owners’ safety management behaviors in the construction industry are attracting increasing attention. However, previous research mostly focused on specific safety management practices on construction sites but ignored the influence of safety leadership and safety culture on owners’ safety management behaviors. To fill this gap, this study aimed to develop an influencing mechanism involving owners’ safety leadership, safety culture, and safety management behaviors. First, a series of interviews and archives studies were conducted in two large real estate developers in China to identify safety management dimensions that can significantly impact construction safety practice. Then, a questionnaire related to owners’ safety management behaviors was developed, and the influencing mechanism was empirically tested. The results show that owners’ safety leadership and safety culture could directly and positively impact owners’ safety management behaviors in the construction industry, and that owners’ safety culture could act as a significant mediator in the relationship between safety leadership and safety behavior. These findings can help the academia to advance the understanding of safety management behaviors, and enable the industry to further improve the safety performance of the construction safety.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This material is based on work supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant No. 71572088 and No. L1824041. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies.
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Construction Research Congress 2020: Safety, Workforce, and Education
Pages: 258 - 267
Editors: Mounir El Asmar, Ph.D., Arizona State University, David Grau, Ph.D., Arizona State University, and Pingbo Tang, Ph.D., Arizona State University
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8287-2
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© 2020 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Nov 9, 2020
Published in print: Nov 9, 2020
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