Core Dimensions of the Construction Safety Climate for a Standardized Safety-Climate Measurement

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 141, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Wu, Chunlin ^a   Song, Xinyi ^b   Wang, Tao ^c   Fang, Dongping ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Construction safety; Core dimensions; Labor and personnel issues; Safety climate; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTORS;

CONSTRUCTION SAFETY; CORE DIMENSION; PERSONNEL ISSUES; SAFETY CLIMATE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 84949640988     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000996     Document Type: Article

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