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Correlation between safety climate and contractor safety assessment programs in construction.

Emily H Sparer¹, Lauren A Murphy, Kathryn M Taylor

¹Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

|September 17, 2013

Summary

Contractor safety assessment programs (CSAPs) do not appear to reflect safety climate in construction. This study found no significant link between CSAP scores and worker perceptions of safety, suggesting current measures may miss crucial safety climate aspects.

Keywords:

construction contractor safety assessment prequalifying assessment safety climate

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Area of Science:

Occupational Health and Safety
Construction Management
Industrial Psychology

Background:

Contractor safety assessment programs (CSAPs) integrate multiple data sources to measure construction safety performance.
The relationship between CSAP safety performance measures and safety climate in the construction industry remains unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the association between contractor safety assessment program scores and safety climate perceptions among construction workers.
To determine if safety performance metrics align with subjective safety climate assessments in construction.

Main Methods:

Surveys assessing safety climate were administered to 401 construction workers and 11 safety managers across 68 companies.
Companies were categorized as high or low scorers based on ConstructSecure CSAP scores.
Spearman rank correlations analyzed the relationship between CSAP scores and safety climate scores at individual and group levels.

Main Results:

No statistically significant differences in safety climate scores were found between workers in high and low CSAP groups.
Weak correlations were observed between worker safety climate scores and company CSAP scores, with limited statistical significance.
Manager-assessed safety climate scores did not significantly differ from worker-assessed scores.

Conclusions:

CSAP safety performance scores do not appear to effectively capture the safety climate within the construction industry.
The complexity of construction safety climate may present challenges for accurate measurement using current assessment tools.
Further research is needed to understand and measure safety climate effectively in construction settings.