Table of Contents
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
CHAPTER 1 SAFETY CLIMATE IN CONSTRUCTION
1.1: Introduction
1.2: Construction safety in Sub-Saharan Africa
1.2.1: Noncompliance to Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Regulations
1.3: Safety climate in construction operations
1.3.1: Construction safety performance
1.3.2: Management safety values
1.3.3: Safety performance indicators
1.3.4: Barriers to safety performance
1.4: Management safety practice
1.5: Construction workers’ safety behaviour
1.6: H&S compliance issues in developing countries
1.7: Conclusions
References
CHAPTER 2 SAFETY PRIORITY
2.1: Introduction
2.2: Management safety commitment and practice
2.2.1: Managements’ visible safety priority
2.3: Organisational safety policy
2.4: Workers’ perceived safety priority and commitment
2.4.1: Compliance and commitment-based safety compliance among workers
2.4.2: Organisational citizenship behaviour
2.4.3: Counterproductive work behaviour
2.5: Management safety support
2.5.1: Safety-related behaviour
2.6: Safety priority issues in developing countries
2.7: Conclusions
References
CHAPTER 3 SAFETY EMPOWERMENT
3.1: Introduction
3.2: Worker empowerment
3.3: Safety empowerment in accident-prone workplaces
3.4: Safety education
3.5: Safety learning
3.6: Safety knowledge
3.7: Benefits of safety empowerment
3.8: Improved safety performance
3.9: Safety empowerment in developing countries
3.10: Conclusions
References
CHAPTER 4 SAFETY JUSTICE
4.1: Introduction
4.2: Organisational justice
4.3: Safety justice in the workplace
4.4: Incident reporting
4.5: Accountability in a just culture
4.6: Safety justice in developing countries
4.7: Conclusions
References
CHAPTER 5 SAFETY LEADERSHIP
5.1: Introduction
5.2: Safety leadership in construction
5.2.1: Big Five Personality Traits
5.3: Transactional safety leadership
5.4: Transformational safety leadership
5.5: Servant safety leadership
5.6: Workers’ safety leadership behaviour
5.7: Conclusions
References
CHAPTER 6 SAFETY COMMITMENT
6.1: Introduction
6.2: Management safety commitment
6.3: Safety compliance and participation
6.4: Workers’ safety commitment
6.5: Safety commitment in developing countries
6.6: Conclusions
References
CHAPTER 7 SAFETY COMMUNICATION
7.1: Introduction
7.2: Safety communication
7.2.1: Open safety communication
7.2.2: Perceived management openness
7.3: Safety training and education
7.3.1: Construction safety training methods
7.3.2: Safety Knowledge and communication
7.4: Safety communication in developing countries
7.5: Conclusions
References
CHAPTER 8 SAFETY TRUST
8.1: Introduction
8.2: Safety trust in construction
8.2.1: Antecedents of Safety Trust
8.2.2: Factors which influence workers’ safety trust in management
8.3: Workers’ trust in safety management systems
8.4: Safety distrust in construction
8.5: Benefits of safety trust
8.6: Safety trust in developing countries
8.7: Conclusions
References