Assessment of safety culture in Jordanian construction industry

Other Title(s)

تقييم ثقافة السلامة في صناعة الإنشاءات الأردنية

Dissertant

al-Nawayisah, Rua Man

Thesis advisor

al-Tarawinah, Sultan Abd al-Rahman Dhiyab

Comitee Members

al-Rawashidah, Hani Abd Allah
al-Mumani, Ayman Hasan al-Ahmad
al-Hamayidah, Husam Damin

University

Mutah University

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

Department

Department of Industrial Systems Engineering

University Country

Jordan

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2016

English Abstract

This study aimed to assess safety culture in Jordanian construction industry, this aim was achieved by specific objectives of this research which include: 1.

Study and evaluate the current status of safety culture in Jordanian construction industry from the contractor perspective.

2.

Identify the main elements of safety culture in Jordanian construction industry and evaluate their influence in safety performance for Jordanian contracting companies.

3.

Develop a framework to improve safety culture in Jordanian construction industry.

To fulfill these objectives, this research was carried in three fundamental stages: literature review on topics related to safety culture, personal interviews with 10 projects managers having high experience in construction processes to develop the final form of the questionnaire, at last, questionnaire distribution process; 149 questionnaires were distributed to the targeted sample , which include the Jordanian contracting companies with the first, second and third classes , while the retained number of questionnaires was 82 ; the total respond rate equal to 55%.

Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyze the data .The most important results of the study can be summarized as the following: 1.

All safety culture elements, which include; safety policy, management commitment, knowledge and training and physical work environment have a positive impact in safety performance for Jordanian contracting companies.

2.

The elements of safety culture have various impacts in safety performance for Jordanian contracting companies, which can be arranged in descending order according to their influence as the following: knowledge and training, physical work environment, management commitment, safety policy.

Based on the research findings, many recommendations were written for the owners, contractors and many stockholders in the construction processes to improve safety culture in Jordanian construction industry, in addition to many suggestions to improve future works.

Main Subjects

Industrial Engineering

No. of Pages

111

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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-749589