TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Investigation and identification of factors affecting migrating peasant workers' usage of safety footwear in the Chinese construction industry
JO  - International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics
A1  - Suo, Qinghui
A1  - Zhang, Daming
SP  - 424
EP  - 430
VL  - 23
IS  - 3
N2  - A sample of 300 migrating peasant workers from 15 Chinese building construction sites completed a demographic questionnaire to investigate the usage of safety footwear. The survey form were constructed based on the theory of planned behaviour, and a total of 12 questions focusing on the workers' past experience, attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control were included in the survey. It was found that 92% of the participants did not wear safety footwear while working on construction sites, although more than 91% of them believed that safety footwear would protect the foot from injury; none of the participants had been provided free safety footwear by their employer. Regression analysis shows that employers' attitude is the most important factor affecting their usage of safety footwear, "Providing free safety footwear" and "comfortability of the safety footwear" ranks the second and third respectively.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1080-3548
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10803548.2016.1277081
ID  - ref1
ER  -