Framework for measuring corporate safety culture and its impact on construction safety performance

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 488-496

  Molenaar, Keith R ^a   Park, Jeong Il ^b   Washington, Simon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Faithful+Gould   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction management; Safety; Statistics

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; CONSTRUCTION SAFETY; CORPORATE CULTURE; CORPORATE SAFETY CULTURE; HIERARCHICAL DESCRIPTION; LATENT VARIABLE; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE ANALYSIS; SAFETY CULTURE; SAFETY INCENTIVES; SAFETY PERFORMANCE; SAFETY RECORDS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING; STATISTICS; SURVEYS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 77950957441     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9364(2009)135:6(488)     Document Type: Article

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