مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Investigation of Safety Culture Level Among Turkish Construction Sector Employees and its Relation with Safety Performance

Abstract :

Occupational accidents in Turkey, is one of the most important problems generally of all industries particularly of the construction industry. Despite many legal regulations, every year, thousands of construction accidents that result in deaths, injuries and permanent incapacity, continue to occur. This situation reveals that need accidents couldn’t be addressed purely as a technical problem .Especially with the Chernobyl nuclear accident, in developed countries, it is focused on human factor and it has been determined that work-related accidents are caused significantly by unsafe behavior of employees. The researchers concentrated their work on safety culture and safety performance. In this study, the level of safety culture of Turkish Construction Sector Employees was investigated. For this purpose a survey was conducted in four different cities and five different construction sites. The relation between safety culture and various demographic characteristics of Turkish construction sector employees and between safety culture and safety performance were investigated. According the results of the study, various proposals have been made to prevent occupational accidents in the construction industry.