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BEHAVIOUR BASED SAFETY
The accident record of the Irish construction industry is poor, HSA statistics report
that injury rate in the construction sector is consistently higher than any other sector
since 2001. The researcher had a personal interest in exploring what drives people to
behave unsafely at the risk of personal injury, having developed this interest while
working as a safety officer in the construction sector, and wanted to explore the
application of a behaviour based safety initiative to the Irish construction industry
The method used was qualitative research by postal questionnaires, specifically
designed for this thesis, one questionnaire aimed at management and a second for
operatives, to include the views of both parties, the questionnaires followed up on
findings from previous similar Irish studies. A pilot study was undertaken to improve
the questionnaires and research technique. The research sample was small to medium
sized construction companies based in predominately in the west of Ireland, one
Dublin based company.
The research found that organisations have a strong ability to influence the behaviour
of their workforce, management commitment, having a strong safety culture and good
supervision were identified as being the main influential factors. Contrary to previous
research the role of the Safety Representative was found to be the least influential
factor. Worker behaviour was found to be the biggest contributor to accident
causation in participating organisations, and was considered to have a major input to
the construction sector accident record
BEHAVIOUR BASED SAFETY
The accident record of the Irish construction industry is poor, HSA statistics report
that injury rate in the construction sector is consistently higher than any other sector
since 2001. The researcher had a personal interest in exploring what drives people to
behave unsafely at the risk of personal injury, having developed this interest while
working as a safety officer in the construction sector, and wanted to explore the
application of a behaviour based safety initiative to the Irish construction industry
The method used was qualitative research by postal questionnaires, specifically
designed for this thesis, one questionnaire aimed at management and a second for
operatives, to include the views of both parties, the questionnaires followed up on
findings from previous similar Irish studies. A pilot study was undertaken to improve
the questionnaires and research technique. The research sample was small to medium
sized construction companies based in predominately in the west of Ireland, one
Dublin based company.
The research found that organisations have a strong ability to influence the behaviour
of their workforce, management commitment, having a strong safety culture and good
supervision were identified as being the main influential factors. Contrary to previous
research the role of the Safety Representative was found to be the least influential
factor. Worker behaviour was found to be the biggest contributor to accident
causation in participating organisations, and was considered to have a major input to
the construction sector accident record