TY - JOUR PY - 2019// TI - Construction worker risk-taking behavior model with individual and organizational factors JO - International journal of environmental research and public health A1 - Low, Banus Kam Leung A1 - Man, Siu Shing A1 - Chan, Alan Hoi Shou A1 - Alabdulkarim, Saad SP - e16081335 EP - e16081335 VL - 16 IS - 8 N2 - Behavioral-based safety is an important application of behavioral science that can be used to address safety problems in the construction sector. An understanding of construction worker risk-taking behavior is deemed to be a crucial basis on which concerned authorities and construction companies can develop effective safety interventions to reduce construction accidents. However, no studies have been conducted to examine the effects of safety climate, work condition, attitude toward risk, cognitive bias, and risk perception on construction worker risk-taking behavior through a quantitative approach. Accordingly, this study aims to propose a research model that explains construction worker risk-taking behavior. A total of 188 valid datasets were obtained through a series of questionnaire surveys conducted in representative construction projects in Hong Kong. Confirmatory factor analysis with structural equation modeling was adopted to validate the hypothesized research model.

RESULTS show that attitudes toward risk and cognitive bias have a positive influence, whereas risk perception and work conditions have a negative influence on construction worker risk-taking behavior. In addition, safety climate was negatively correlated with construction worker risk-taking behavior. Practical recommendations for reducing construction worker risk-taking behavior are also discussed in this paper.

Language: en

LA - en SN - 1661-7827 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16081335 ID - ref1 ER -