Assessing Leading Indicators of Safety Performance Through an Organizational Survey: Associations between a safety prequalification survey and worker safety experiences on commercial construction sites

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• Corporate Authors:
  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  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. Read the abstract: https://bit.ly/31sr81K. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Construction Industry Injury Prevention Safety Climate Safety Monitoring Work Organization
• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Subseries:
  Key Findings from Research
• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20067608
• Citation:
  Key findings from research. Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2020 Nov; :1
• Email:
  j.dennerlein@neu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d787080a6071c8a84728492f45c73221cbb005078e7174208cfe4b945dabb99edfe3eef6715812955a1191430655e933922ddb8b577342efa04f6ca0c624da43
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/147135/cdc_147135_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 41.39 KB ]