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Alsamadani, R, Hallowell, M and Javernick-Will, A N (2013) Measuring and modelling safety communication in small work crews in the US using social network analysis. Construction Management and Economics, 31(06), 568-79.
Ayers, G F, Culvenor, J F, Sillitoe, J and Else, D (2013) Meaningful and effective consultation and the construction industry of Victoria, Australia. Construction Management and Economics, 31(06), 542-67.
Behm, M and Schneller, A (2013) Application of the Loughborough Construction Accident Causation model: a framework for organizational learning. Construction Management and Economics, 31(06), 580-95.
Esmaeili, B and Hallowell, M (2013) Integration of safety risk data with highway construction schedules. Construction Management and Economics, 31(06), 528-41.
Forman, M (2013) Inertia and change: lean construction and health and safety work on construction sites. Construction Management and Economics, 31(06), 647-60.
Koch, C (2013) From crew to country? Local and national construction safety cultures in Denmark. Construction Management and Economics, 31(06), 691-703.
- Type: Journal Article
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- ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
- URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2013.787490
- Abstract:
Accidents in construction have motivated a range of prevention methods and efforts with more or less success. Cultural explanations are of crucial importance in understanding risk at work and this contribution adds to the growing body of qualitative studies of safety culture. Symbolic interactionism is used as a conceptual ethnographic framework to include integration, differentiation, ambiguity and the multiple configuration of safety cultures. The primary case is a carpenter's crew of 28 men engaged in renovation work. The analysis reveals the overarching common integrative culture to be characterized by pride in work. This culture overlaps with four cultures named mastering, framework and rules, drawing board and plan, and ties that bind, found using the differentiation perspective. Ambiguous perceptions are found regarding possibilities for prevention and risk, which differ according to time, place and actor. This result is juxtaposed with cultures found in four other ethnographic studies from Denmark covering 10 companies. Although these studies find 25 different safety cultures, a national pattern showing a configuration of reactive and proactive safety cultures does seem prevalent. Accident prevention methods need to be more sensitive to different safety cultures, on site and in companies, but can also use national mechanisms such as training.
Larsen, G D and Whyte, J (2013) Safe construction through design: perspectives from the site team. Construction Management and Economics, 31(06), 675-90.
Li, H, Chan, G and Skitmore, M (2013) Integrating real time positioning systems to improve blind lifting and loading crane operations. Construction Management and Economics, 31(06), 596-605.
Marks, E D and Teizer, J (2013) Method for testing proximity detection and alert technology for safe construction equipment operation. Construction Management and Economics, 31(06), 636-46.
Melzner, J, Zhang, S, Teizer, J and Bargstädt, H-J (2013) A case study on automated safety compliance checking to assist fall protection design and planning in building information models. Construction Management and Economics, 31(06), 661-74.
Sherratt, F, Farrell, P and Noble, R (2013) UK construction site safety: discourses of enforcement and engagement. Construction Management and Economics, 31(06), 623-35.
Tutt, D, Pink, S, Dainty, A R J and Gibb, A (2013) ‘In the air’ and below the horizon: migrant workers in UK construction and the practice-based nature of learning and communicating OHS. Construction Management and Economics, 31(06), 515-27.
Zhou, Z, Irizarry, J and Li, Q (2013) Applying advanced technology to improve safety management in the construction industry: a literature review. Construction Management and Economics, 31(06), 606-22.