Workplace Safety and Health Perceptions of Construction Workers

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• Personal Author:
  Dong, Xiuwen S. ; Goldenhar, Linda M. ; Wang X
• Description:
  Safety climate is an indicator of the overall strength of an organization's safety culture - a subset of organizational culture. In recent years, many safety climate measures have been developed, to assess safety-related perceptions of management or workers. While the construction industry is a relative latecomer to the safety climate discussion (Schwatka et al, 2016), the April 2016 Dodge SmartMarket Report "Building a Safety Culture: Improving Safety and Health in the Construction Industry", indicates progress in this industry in recent years (Dodge & Data Analytics, 2016). The second 2016 CPWR Quarterly Data Report " Safety Management and Safety Culture among Small Construction Firms" suggests that small construction firms lag behind larger ones on most of the safety climate indicators (Wang et al, 2016). Both these reports, however, present concerns from management's perspective. To better understand workers' perspectives on workplace safety and health, and other work-related concerns, we analyzed data from the NIOSH Occupational Health Supplement (OHS) to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). NHIS is a large population-based survey used to gather health data from more than 40,000 households and is the principal source of information on the health of the U.S. population. NIOSH sponsored a series of more in-depth work-related questions in the 2010 NHIS and 2015 NHIS. The findings described in this Quarterly Data Report are based only on the 2015 NHIS-OHS. While the NHIS-OHS questions were designed to measure work-related issues more generally, a number of the items do measure safety climate at job sites. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Small Business Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Health Surveys Information Systems Management Personnel Safety-research Safety Climate Safety Culture Safety Measures Safety Monitoring Safety Practices Safety Programs Small Businesses Statistical Analysis Surveillance Work Environment Worker Health Worker Safety Work Organization

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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 ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-21
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20050516
• Citation:
  CPWR Quarterly Data Report. Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2016 Oct; :1-21
• Contact Point Address:
  Xiuwen Sue Dong, CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 8484 Georgia Avenue, Suite 1000, Silver Spring, MD 20910
• Email:
  SDong@cpwr.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• 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:
  Workplace safety and health perceptions of construction workers
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b19b98171ad2b6469d40be63a28f0e426bba6f5b632c39bc0e15670abf68cba4e5a6cffc7f43d4b2bd3452eed369982e037b668def48772a8af894664bb47964
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/210829/cdc_210829_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.18 MB ]