NDLI: The relationship between communication and construction safety climate in China

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Liao, Pin Chao Lei, Guangpu Fang, Dongping Liu, Wei
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Cultivating a good safety climate is critical to the improvement of safety performance in construction. Previous research has demonstrated that communication is important in strengthening the safety climate. However, few studies have addressed the role of jobsite communication in safety or investigated its relationship with the safety climate. Attempts to optimize communication to improve the safety climate appear to lack both adequate theoretical and empirical bases, as well as consensus on its importance. Therefore, this study identifies the relationship between communication and construction safety climate. The authors surveyed four subcontractors employed on two construction projects, which were administered by different Chinese state-owned enterprises. Models of the safety communication structure and safety climate were developed through social network analysis. Interviews were conducted to confirm and summarize the findings. The results indicate that a positive safety climate could be associated with higher communication density and degree centrality, as well as with lower betweenness centrality. To enhance the jobsite safety climate, this study recommends the following best practices: (1) Construction safety leaders (e.g., site managers) should communicate more frequently with construction workers when high organizational centrality is detected. (2) Additional communication channels should be established to bridge communication gaps among individuals. The findings validate the importance of communication as a way to manage the safety climate of Chinese construction projects.
Starting Page	887
Ending Page	897
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	12267988
Journal	KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering
Volume Number	18
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	19763808
Language	English
Publisher	Korean Society of Civil Engineers
Publisher Date	2014-04-25
Publisher Place	Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	safety climate communication social network analysis construction Civil Engineering Industrial Pollution Prevention Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Civil and Structural Engineering

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