The Influence of Safety Training on Safety Climate Factors in a Construction Site

Autor: Mohammad Javad Jafari, Mehdi Gharari, Mohtasham Ghafari, Leila Omidi, Saba Kalantari, GolamReza Asadolah-Fardi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: International Journal of Occupational Hygiene, Vol 6, Iss 2 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2008-5109
2008-5435
Popis: Safety issues have always been put forward as one of the major problems and primary concerns in construction industries in many countries. This paper will focus on the impact of safety training on safety climate and its relevant factors in two sites of a construction firm. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) guide to safety climate tool that had been validated in Iran was used to determine the impacts of safety training on safety climate and its relevant factors. For this purpose, 347 workers filled out the questionnaire before and after safety training. The relationships between demographic features of workers and safety climate factors were considered in the questionnaire. Spearman's rho test was used to determine the relationship between safety climate factors. In both sites, there were significant differences (p
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