The structure of safety climates and its effects on workers' attitudes and work safety at Japanese construction work sites

Journal of UOEH

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-43

  Shoji, Takuro ^a   Egawa, Yoshiyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Construction site; Safety attitude; Safety climate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLIMATE; CONSTRUCTION WORK; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 33645708703     PISSN: 0387821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7888/juoeh.28.29     Document Type: Article

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