- Title
- Development of the human safety intervention questionnaire on construction projects
- Creator
- Boateng, Emmanuel; Pillay, Manikam; Gajendran, Thayaparan; Davis, Peter
- Relation
- Joint CIB W099 & TG59 International Web-Conference 2020: Good Health, Wellbeing & Decent Work. Proceedings of the Joint CIB W099 & TG59 International Web-Conference 2020: Good Health, Wellbeing & Decent Work (online 08-10 September, 2020) p. 286-294
- Relation
- https://www.w099tg592020.com
- Publisher
- International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Safety interventions targeted at strengthening safety climate are needed to improve safety behaviour and minimise accidents. This study describes the development of the human safety intervention questionnaire (HSIQ) to better the understanding of climate formation and related safety outcomes at the group level. A 12-item questionnaire was developed through literature search and the use of experts. The questionnaire adopts the referent-shift approach for data aggregation. Data were obtained from 317 trade workers in large construction projects. Reliability and correlation analysis revealed high Cronbach alpha and a reasonable level of correlation among the twelve items respectively. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) extracted two factors: namely sociological safety interventions and psychological safety interventions. Both interventions offer opportunities for crossfertilisation by considering contextual and structural constraints associated with a unidimensional view when offering insights on safety events. The EFA also demonstrates good construct and face validity. The HSIQ provides a means of investigating safety intervention strategies. The paper concludes with a discussion and potential uses of the HSIQ.
- Subject
- human safety interventions; safety climate; questionnaire; factor analysis; construction
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1450975
- Identifier
- uon:44066
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781905866984
- Language
- eng
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