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Employers’ Behavioural Safety Compliance Factors toward Occupational, Safety and Health Improvement in the Construction Industry

Year: 2012

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Human behaviour is a major contributor of construction accidents revealed by many occupational safeties literatures. The presence of good safety behaviour does reflect good safety compliance. Safety issue cannot be tackle effectively without interference of employers with a particular pattern of behaviours as important criteria needed to change employee's behaviours. Thus, the primary objective of this study is to identify employers’ behavioural safety compliance factors contribute to encourage employees’ towards behavioural safety compliance. This paper is an initial study with the hope that the finding will leads the establishment of safety indicators for behavioural safety compliance in the construction industry.

Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.03.081

Authors: Sulastre Mat Zin, Faridah Ismail

Institutions: Universiti Teknologi MARA System, Universiti Teknologi MARA

Language: English

Topic: Occupational Health and Safety Research

Subfield: Safety Research

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Decent work and economic growth, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Division of Chemistry