Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

CHAPTER 1 SAFETY CLIMATE IN CONSTRUCTION

1.1: Introduction

1.2: Construction safety in Sub-Saharan Africa

1.2.1: Noncompliance to Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Regulations

1.3: Safety climate in construction operations

1.3.1: Construction safety performance

1.3.2: Management safety values

1.3.3: Safety performance indicators

1.3.4: Barriers to safety performance

1.4: Management safety practice

1.5: Construction workers’ safety behaviour

1.6: H&S compliance issues in developing countries

1.7: Conclusions

References

CHAPTER 2 SAFETY PRIORITY

2.1: Introduction

2.2: Management safety commitment and practice

2.2.1: Managements’ visible safety priority

2.3: Organisational safety policy

2.4: Workers’ perceived safety priority and commitment

2.4.1: Compliance and commitment-based safety compliance among workers

2.4.2: Organisational citizenship behaviour

2.4.3: Counterproductive work behaviour

2.5: Management safety support

2.5.1: Safety-related behaviour

2.6: Safety priority issues in developing countries

2.7: Conclusions

References

CHAPTER 3 SAFETY EMPOWERMENT

3.1: Introduction

3.2: Worker empowerment

3.3: Safety empowerment in accident-prone workplaces

3.4: Safety education

3.5: Safety learning

3.6: Safety knowledge

3.7: Benefits of safety empowerment

3.8: Improved safety performance

3.9: Safety empowerment in developing countries

3.10: Conclusions

References

CHAPTER 4 SAFETY JUSTICE

4.1: Introduction

4.2: Organisational justice

4.3: Safety justice in the workplace

4.4: Incident reporting

4.5: Accountability in a just culture

4.6: Safety justice in developing countries

4.7: Conclusions

References

CHAPTER 5 SAFETY LEADERSHIP

5.1: Introduction

5.2: Safety leadership in construction

5.2.1: Big Five Personality Traits

5.3: Transactional safety leadership

5.4: Transformational safety leadership

5.5: Servant safety leadership

5.6: Workers’ safety leadership behaviour

5.7: Conclusions

References

CHAPTER 6 SAFETY COMMITMENT

6.1: Introduction

6.2: Management safety commitment

6.3: Safety compliance and participation

6.4: Workers’ safety commitment

6.5: Safety commitment in developing countries

6.6: Conclusions

References

CHAPTER 7 SAFETY COMMUNICATION

7.1: Introduction

7.2: Safety communication

7.2.1: Open safety communication

7.2.2: Perceived management openness

7.3: Safety training and education

7.3.1: Construction safety training methods

7.3.2: Safety Knowledge and communication

7.4: Safety communication in developing countries

7.5: Conclusions

References

CHAPTER 8 SAFETY TRUST

8.1: Introduction

8.2: Safety trust in construction

8.2.1: Antecedents of Safety Trust

8.2.2: Factors which influence workers’ safety trust in management

8.3: Workers’ trust in safety management systems

8.4: Safety distrust in construction

8.5: Benefits of safety trust

8.6: Safety trust in developing countries

8.7: Conclusions

References