Measuring safety climate of a construction company

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 135, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 890-899

  Choudhry, Rafiq M ^a,b   Fang, Dongping ^c   Lingard, Helen ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY NUST   (Pakistan)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Construction companies; Construction sites; Contractors; Regression analysis; Safety

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FACTORS; CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; CONSTRUCTION SITES; EFFECTIVE MEASURES; EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HARD COPIES; HONG-KONG; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PROJECT MANAGERS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS; RESPONSE RATE; SAFETY; SAFETY CLIMATE; SAFETY CULTURE; SAFETY PERFORMANCE; SAFETY PROCEDURE; SITE SAFETY; TOTAL VARIANCE; WORK PRACTICES;

CONSTRUCTION; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; CONTRACTORS; FORESTRY; METAL ANALYSIS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY FACTOR; STATISTICS; SURVEYS;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

EID: 69149102806     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000063     Document Type: Article

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