Understanding safety culture and safety climate in construction: existing evidence and a path forward, literature review summary for safety culture/climate workshop

Details

• Personal Author:
  Goldenhar, Linda M. ; Hecker S
• Description:
  The terms "safety culture" and "safety climate" are used with increasing frequency by construction industry practitioners and researchers in academia even though there is currently no definitional agreement on job sites or in literature. The terms evolved from the broader concepts of "organizational culture" and "organizational climate" that became part of the business vocabulary in the 1980s due in part to a number of industrial catastrophes. Researchers conducted a literature review on the state of safety culture and safety climate in general industry and more specifically the construction industry. They prepared a summary of their findings and provided it to 70 industry practitioners, safety and health professionals, academics and government officials attendees at an invitation-only, two-day workshop on construction-related safety culture and safety climate in Washington, D.C., June 2013, co-hosted by CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training. The document provided insight into current definitions and measurement methods, use of behavior-based safety and other construction-specific interventions. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Education Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Health-science-personnel Information-processing Information-systems Professional-workers Safety-climate Safety-personnel Safety-practices Safety-programs Teaching Work-environment Work-operations Work-organization Work-practices Worker-health

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• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046893
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2014 Jun; :1
• Email:
  shecker@uw.edu
• 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:
  Understanding safety culture and safety climate in construction: existing evidence and a path forward, literature review summary for safety culture/climate workshop
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5ac2d0e6254b54f2d8ed3272c8bb0fb3a30a755e1486765a2893da037cc4e3140dc4bb6ef7b2ee76cf45a6f29b1868f461889b7c6aa8066284a688561a1fcc8f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202165/cdc_202165_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 67.29 KB ]