Why operatives engage in unsafe work behavior: Investigating factors on construction sites

By R. Choudhry, DongPing Fang. 2008

767 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, Social Psychology, Statistics and Probability

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/72c962765986424d8a981ac6447bd0e893d7a794

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In Radiological and Ultrasound Technology

1. S. Moon
2. Chen Zhao
3. DongPing Fang
4. Stacey M. Conchie
5. Mengchun Zhang
6. Malcolm Duncan

In Social Psychology

1. S. Moon
2. Chen Zhao
3. DongPing Fang
4. Stacey M. Conchie
5. Mengchun Zhang
6. Malcolm Duncan

In Statistics and Probability

1. Chen Zhao
2. DongPing Fang
3. Stacey M. Conchie
4. Mengchun Zhang

Citations in the corpus

• Supervisors’ engagement in safety leadership: Factors that help and hinder (2013, background): “Also, workload has been associated with reduced safety citizenship behaviors (i.e., discretionary safety behaviors, such as helping; Turner et al., 2005) and an increase in unsafe behavior (Barling et al., 2002; Choudhry and Fang, 2008; Flin et al., 2000; Frone, 1998; Hofmann and Stetzer, 1996).”
• A Social Virtual Reality Based Construction Safety Education System for Experiential Learning (2014, background): “Choudhry & Fang [15] and Tam et al. [16] indicated that workers were involved in unsafe behaviour because of the lack of basic safety knowledge and awareness.”
• Do Perceptions of Supervisors' Safety Responses Mediate the Relationship between Perceptions of the Organizational Safety Climate and Incident Rates in the Construction Supply Chain? (2012, unknown): “Research demonstrates that managers at different levels, including senior managers and first-level supervisors, have a significant impact upon safety performance in the construction industry (Sawacha et al. 1999; Choudhry & Fang, 2008).”
• A Cognitive Model of Construction Workers’ Unsafe Behaviors (2016, background): “…and workers would get productivity bonus (Kines et al. 2010; Choudhry and Fang 2008) It is time consuming to wear hearing protective devices (Edelson et al. 2009), gloves (Choudhry and Fang 2008), to wait for appropriate equipment (Lipscomb et al. 2008) Note: PPE = personal protective equipment.”