eLCOSH : Safety Behaviour in the Construction Industry

Safety Behaviour in the Construction Industry

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Nick McDonald, Victor Hrymak

Health and Safety Authority

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Factor Non-compliance

Management
Factor 1
(scale 1- 5)

Management
Factor 2
(scale 1- 5)

Safety Rep. on
site?

Reporting

Fixing

Stop
working

Follow
working

Site 3

2.28

4.12

4.00

2 (Yes)

37.38

22.43

26.80

13.40

Site 2

2.71

2.50

4.00

76.61

5.85

6.76

10.78

Site 7

7.14

3.50

3.00

59.98

18.31

17.61

4.08

Site 15

7.14

4.37

3.00

42.95

25.76

12.70

18.60

Site 11

7.85

3.62

2.50

75.90

15.26

.88

7.96

Site 12

5.00

4.12

2.50

70.48

17.06

5.56

6.88

Site 5

14.00

2.50

3.00

1 (No)

58.91

5.18

19.25

16.65

Site 18

12.85

4.00

2.50

31.25

34.16

3.33

31.25

Site 13

10.00

1.37

2.00

45.55

26.46

5.55

22.40

Site 6

11.71

2.85

2.00

37.30

6.38

23.86

32.48

Site 14

12.14

2.87

2.00

47.26

27.28

4.85

20.61

Site 4

12.85

1.12

1.50

32.26

17.41

36.55

13.81

Site 17

15.00

2.87

2.50

50.36

26.58

13.11

9.93

Site 1

15.71

3.50

1.00

68.38

25.31

.00

6.31

Site 16

20.71

4.12

2.00

28.60

57.58

3.03

10.80

Site 10

24.85

2.00

47.63

16.66

7.15

28.60

Factor Non-compliance

R= -.2709
(p= .310)

R= -.6604
(p= .005)

R= -.7870
(p= .000)

R= -.3623
(p= .168)

R= -.3785
(p= .148)

R= -.1898
(p= .481)

R= -.3305
(p= .211)

Management Factor 1

R= .3572
(p= .146)

R= .4901
(p= .054)

R= .0535
(p= .844)

R= .3779
(p= .149)

R= -.3203
(p= .226)

R= -.2553
(p= .340)

Management
Factor 2

R= .6931
(p= .003)

R= .2031
(p= .451)

R= -.2904 (p= .275)

R= .1748
(p= .517)

R= -.1545
(p= .568)

Safety Rep. on
site?

R= .5074
(p= .032)

R= -.2698
(p= .279)

R= .0006
(p= .998)

R= -.4868
(p= .040)

Table 23: Visual and statistical correlations. Table ordered to show visual correlations between Non- compliance and Management- Factor 2. Other correlations shown are presence of Safety Representative on site and Preferred behaviour of operatives in the face of danger.