the safety investment and the AOI. From these two curves, the optimal safety investment on a building site by a contractor … could be determined. It was found that the minimum safety investment on a building project is about 0.6% of the contract sum … consecutive days through injury. If first-aid-only and non-injury accidents were also considered, the minimum safety investment …

address this issue, differences in safety attitudes and behaviours were explored among construction workers, first …-line supervisors, and project managers in small residential construction companies with respect to recommendations for safety … qualitative (interview) methods was used to obtain different but complementary data on the same safety challenges. Shadowing was …

Previous studies merely attempted to identify factors affecting safety performance from the micro perspective of … institutional arrangements are essential for better safety performance in a construction industry. Province-level construction … safety records in China from 1994 to 2000 were used to test the effects of institutional arrangements on construction safety …

Previous attempts to use goal setting and feedback to improve safety behaviour on construction sites have focused on … reliably measuring the safety performance of construction managers; and motivating managers to improve their safety performance …. A measure of management safety performance was developed, covering seven items: induction training; toolbox talk …

recognition of safety signs and symbols. The safety signs and symbols are split into categories of mandatory action signs …, prohibition signs and warning symbols. Thirty safety signs and symbols printed in colour and in Chinese were distributed to 560 … 90%, 61% and 55% respectively. Drinking habits, involvement in on-site safety promotion activities and their job …

A safety planning and control model (SPC) has been integrated into the production planning and control process. The … model integrates safety into three hierarchical levels of production control. Safety long-term planning starts with the …-term planning levels. The main performance measure adopted for safety evaluation at the short-term level is the Percentage of Safe …

Some safety programmes are more effective than others in improving safety performance at the project level. The … effectiveness of safety programmes was evaluated by studying 70 construction projects in the Thai construction sector, examining the … relationship between their actual status and associated site safety performance. The actual status was assessed by using an …

relations between different cultural groups and there is evidence that this has a detrimental impact upon safety. …

contractors to provide adequate safety measures with an increased reliance on the workers' compensation insurance. Based on the …