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Assessing Leading Indicators of Safety Performance Through an Organizational Survey
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2020
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Description:Associations between a safety prequalification survey and worker safety experiences on commercial construction sites
Jack T. Dennerlein, Daniel Weinstein, Whitney Huynh, Jamie Tessler, Lauren Bigger, Lauren Murphy and Justin Majourides. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2020.
Prequalification processes in construction bidding increasingly measure subcontractors’ safety performance to minimize the risk of workplace accidents and injuries. While injury records and a firm’s experience modification rate typically assess safety performance, these lagging indicators have limitations. As a result, contractors, construction management companies, and project owners are increasingly using surveys of leading indicators—including policies, programs, and practices that monitor, control and/or eliminate hazards—to evaluate a bidder’s safety performance. However, a recent study found that these prequalification surveys typically lack validation and assessments of essential elements of safety systems. As part of its Assessment of Contractor Safety (ACES) project, the research team designed and tested an organizational survey of subcontractors’ leading indicators of safety performance. It was administered to 43 subcontractors on 24 job sites; there was a separate survey to capture the safety climate and injury rates of 1426 workers on these sites.
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