![]() The research explains why there were no significant differences between safe work practices and the occurrence of near-misses or accidents. A questionnaire survey of 100 respondents and 20 interviews with site workers revealed that knowledge of action and attitude were better predictors than practice on the propensity of construction workers to be involved in near-misses and accidents. This research explores safety outcomes concerning knowledge, attitude, and practice in PPE use on Trinidad's construction sites. The present study is the first empirical research investigating the relationship between manager and supervisor’s safety management and safety performance in the SME manufacturing setting.ĭespite alarming injury and fatality rates, construction workers continue to neglect the appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE). Our results extend previous research by highlighting the importance of owner-manager safety management practices in driving safety performance and indicating how each dimension of safety management practices either enhances or inhibits safety performance. Based on the analysis, the study revealed that safety concern, safety policy and safety motivation, each, have a meaningful relationship with safety performance, while the supervisor’s safety management did not significantly affect safety performance. The data collected were analysed using partial least squares structural equation modelling. A total of 165 production workers participated in the study. ![]() The questionnaires were distributed to the production workers in SME manufacturing firms in Selangor, Malaysia. ![]() Grounded on the Theories of Accident Causation, the present study applied a research model examining the relationship between owner-manager safety management practices (safety concern, safety policy and safety motivation) and safety management of supervisors, and the overall safety performance in Malaysia’s SME manufacturing. This signals the need to examine how owner-managers and supervisors’ safety management practices improve occupational safety performance in SME manufacturing companies. Thus, the owner-managers and the supervisors’ safety management, respectively, are proposed to impact the safety performance. SME is unique in terms of characteristics, such as flat organizational structure. Over the years, there have been a large percentage of workplace injuries by SMEs in Malaysia, including financial and other SMEs’ constraints, which inform of inexpensive approach, thus requiring effective approaches to boost their safety performance. Small and medium entrepreneurship (SMEs) is the backbone of countries’ development. CHS-related issues have to be given the needed research and academic attention in order to reduce accidents and hazards on sites. The courts should be encouraged to impose fair and adequate compensation on employers and occasionally punitive or exemplary damages to deter and prevent occurrence of accidents and hazards at construction sites. Serious steps should be taken by stakeholders to enforce construction health and safety (CHS) practices on construction sites to reduce the high frequency rate of accidents and injuries and the high incidence rate in the GCI. The findings of the study provide knowledge on impacts of accidents and hazards to stakeholders of the GCI and the government in general. The most critical impacts of accidents and hazards on the GCI were identified as slow-down of work, increase in cost of project and poor performance of work. Data were analyzed using content analysis technique. Participants were seven each of Contractors and Consultants using data saturation to limit the number, through purposive sampling technique. The qualitative research strategy was adopted, using in-depth face to face interviews. This paper explored the impacts of accidents and hazards on the Ghanaian construction industry (GCI).
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