Improving health and safety culture - a guide for construction clients
- Authors: Musonda, Innocent , Pretorius, Jan-Harm , Haupt, Theodore Conrad
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: Health and safety , Clients , Culture , LIP+3C
- Language: English
- Type: Conference proceedings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/22516 , uj:16206 , Citation: Musonda, I., Pretorius, J.-H. & Haupt, T.C. 2013. Improving health and safety culture - a guide for construction clients. In: Ahmed, S.M., Smith, N., Azhar, S., Yaris, C., Shah, A., Farooqui, R. and Pothyress, R. (Eds). Challenges in Innovation, Integration and Collaboration in Construction & Engineering. Proceedings of the 7th International conference on Construction in the 21st Century (CITC-VII), Bangkok, 19-21 December, 2013. ISBN:978-0-9894623-0-3
- Description: Abstract: Many accidents and a general poor health and safety performance for both the construction industry and other high reliability industries have been blamed on the poor health and safety (H&S) culture that was prevalent at the time. Addressing H&S culture is therefore a very important step to eliminating accidents and thereby improve the general H&S performance within an organisation or industry. The current paper will therefore report on findings from an empirical study on improving H&S performance in a construction project and will also present a guide of how to improve the construction client’s H&S culture. The research conducted in South Africa and Botswana and whose results were modelled using structural equation modelling, found that with a better H&S culture, clients had a positive influence on H&S performance of construction projects. The client H&S culture was characterized by leadership, involvement, procedures, commitment, communication and competence (LIP+3C). A positive manifest of these factors in the client entity entailed a better H&S performance at project level. This paper will therefore present a guide on how construction clients may improve their H&S culture and thereby impact positively on project’s H&S performance. Further, the guide will exemplify how the concept of H&S culture may be operationalised in order to benefit from a concept that has been mooted as the panacea for the H&S problem in the construction industry as well as the concept that has been at the centre of major industrial disasters.
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An exploratory study on the impact significance of project stakeholders on construction project health and safety (H&S)
- Authors: Musonda, Innocent , Haupt, Theodore Conrad
- Date: 2011
- Subjects: Construction workers - Health and hygiene , Construction industry - Safety measures , Construction industry - Health aspects
- Language: English
- Type: Conference proceedings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/55098 , uj:16269 , Citation: Musonda, I. & Haupt, T.C. 2011. An exploratory study on the impact significance of project stakeholders on construction project health and safety (H&S). Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management, Sydney, Australia, 16-18 February 2011, pS18-1. , ISBN 978-0-646-56461-6
- Description: Abstract: Health and safety in the construction industry continue to fall behind many industries despite much effort to improve the status. A considerable amount of research has been conducted to try and contribute to addressing the problem of health and safety (H&S) in the construction industry. A number of studies have looked at the role of various construction project stakeholders and their contribution to H&S. However there is no clear identification of the extent to which various stakeholders could contribute and therefore influence the outcome of H&S on construction projects. In view of the above, the current Delphi study went a little bit further and sought to establish the impact significance of construction clients and designers on H&S. This paper will present findings from the study which is the impact significance of clients and designers on H&S consideration throughout the project life cycle.
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