Safety culture and climate in construction: bridging the gap between research and practice

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• Personal Author:
  Gillen, Matthew ; Goldenhar, Linda M. ; Hecker S ; Schneider S
• Description:
  Researchers and practitioners agree that the safety culture and safety climate are key to reducing injuries, illnesses and fatalities on construction worksites. Construction industry stakeholders from business, labor, academia and government participated in a workshop in June 2013 to 1) help create construction-specific definitions of "safety culture" and "safety climate," 2) discuss reliable and valid ways to measure the concepts, and 3) have a dialogue about interventions that could be implemented to improve safety climate. During the workshop, session leaders presented several definitions for safety culture and safety climate, and they were discussed. Participants acknowledged that the industry remains too dependent on lagging rather than leading indicators to measure the effectiveness of worksite safety activities. Workshop discussions were held with the entire group and with stakeholders breaking into small working groups with many disciplines represented in each. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Communications Media Construction Industry Education Mass Behavior Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Staff Development

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• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Communication-systems Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Group-dynamics Injury-prevention Occupational-hazards Occupational-safety-programs Safety-climate Safety-education Safety-programs Safety-research Training Work-practices Worker-health

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• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Maryland ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046588
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2014 Jun; :1
• Email:
  lgoldenhar@cpwr.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Safety culture and climate in construction: bridging the gap between research and practice
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:203aeff87b74fca7f5360b7c7fc03f81e8817def411a7b21e8915cf28dc37f1cd4b9d82e954455183bcf3b2e8988d675f4be65685e715516089f4300c9cbe9d6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201599/cdc_201599_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 51.60 KB ]