Impact of the supervisor on worker safety behavior in construction projects

Journal of Management in Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Fang, Dongping ^a   Wu, Chunlin ^a   Wu, Haojie ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LongFor Properties Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Behavior based safety (BBS); Construction projects; Group level safety climate; Supervisory behavior; Worker safety behavior

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; FACTOR ANALYSIS; GROUP THEORY; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SAFETY FACTOR; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL; SURVEYS;

BEHAVIOR-BASED SAFETIES; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; SAFETY CLIMATE; SUPERVISORY BEHAVIOR; WORKER SAFETY;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

EID: 84943587203     PISSN: 0742597X     EISSN: 19435479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)ME.1943-5479.0000355     Document Type: Article

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