Health and safety management efforts as correlates of performance in the Nigerian construction industry

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 277-285

  Idoro, Godwin Iroroakpo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

H S management efforts; Objective H S performance measurement; Subjective H S performance measurement

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; CONTRACTORS; EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MANAGEMENT; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; STATISTICAL TESTS; SURVEYS;

ACCIDENT RATES; FIELD SURVEYS; HEALTH AND SAFETIES; LOW CORRELATIONS; NIGERIA; NIGERIANS; ON SITES; PERFORMANCE VARIABLES; SPEARMAN CORRELATIONS; STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLINGS; WORK ENVIRONMENTS;

CONTRACTS;

EID: 57749087742     PISSN: 13923730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/1392-3730.2008.14.27     Document Type: Article

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