SmartMarket Report: Building a Safety Culture: Improving Safety and Health Management in the Construction Industry

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• Corporate Authors:
  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Description:
  Safety and health considerations need to permeate all levels of a construction company's culture, informing decisions, planning, activities and behaviors. It is not enough to simply have safety rules, training and protocols in effect. Leading companies nurture a comprehensive safety culture throughout their organizations, both from the top down and the bottom up. In this report, our latest study on safety management in the construction industry, we take a close look at 33 indicators of a safety culture, including: Measures of Management Commitment to Safety and Health; Worker Involvement in Jobsite Safety; Company Communications on Safety; The Degree to Which Safety is Treated as a Fundamental Company Value. The findings provide a fascinating view across a safety culture spectrum, with nearly equal numbers of companies currently showing high, moderate and low levels of engagement with these indicators. While this reveals that we still have work to do as an industry before safety cultures are prevalent at most companies, it also shows that enough companies now have a strong safety culture in place to begin to identify best practices and inspire improvements that will benefit the entire industry. In addition to exploring the elements of a safety culture, the study also provides new data on many of the topics covered in the 2013 Safety Management in the Construction Industry SmartMarket Report, enabling comparisons that suggest some interesting changes. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Construction Industry Construction Workers Injury Prevention Occupational Safety And Health Safety Culture Worker Safety Work Organization
• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Publisher:
  Dodge Data & Analytics
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  56 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Petrullo, Michael ; Morton, Burleigh ; Jones, Stephen A. ; Laquidara-Carr, Donna ; Walloga, Ed ; Lorenz, Alison ; Yamada, Terumasa ; Buckley, Bruce ; Logan, Katharine ; Barnett, Susan
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20055348
• Citation:
  Bedford, MA: Dodge Data & Analytics, 2016 Apr; :1-56
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• 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:
  SmartMarket report: building a safety culture: improving safety and health management in the construction industry
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:592f7fd7141102f636b0fde1fb047bb18651a6fb8f2e39be44c2b6e5057a3fc5b58884c3d62e343b24057296ece16085a908e429353ef80acf46ab678344fcbb
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/213232/cdc_213232_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.44 MB ]