Accidents and incidents in the construction environment are not reduced or eliminated effectively, despite numerous efforts made to improve health and safety in the industry. An extensive field of research has been conducted on how teams in the construction environment interact to deliver a project successfully in terms of cost, quality and time. Previous research exists on how team dynamics interface with safety, but is found to be of different focus or markets than this study. This study aims to determine the characteristics of the safety climate that exists in construction teams in South Africa in terms of world-class safety performance, when compared to teams with poor safety performance. An adaptation of the modified safety pyramid (Zohar, 2010) provides a useful conceptual model to investigate the link between safety performance and safety climate related to construction teams. By combining observations from literature and predominantly adapting the Safety Climate Questionnaire (SCQ), a number of directly measurable factors are identified that can be correlated with safety performance and utilised in this investigation to identify the unique characteristics of safety climate in construction teams with world-class safety performance. The characteristics of the safety climate in construction teams were divided into eight groups, namely work pressure, incident investigation, adequacy of procedures, communication and training, relationships, personal protective equipment, spares, and safety. The framework developed in previous studies is used for assessing the responses of safety users to that of safety performance observations. It is found that relationships within an organisation are a major contributory factor in safety performance, but also the way in which the safety climate is enforced in an inclusive management style through proper procedure, training and communication. This also supports the results of Cohen (1977). Keywords: Construction teams, safety climate

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南非建筑项目中具有世界一流安全绩效的团队的安全气候特征

尽管为改善行业的健康和安全做出了许多努力，但并未有效减少或消除建筑环境中的事故和事故征候。在成本，质量和时间方面，已经进行了广泛的研究领域，涉及建筑环境中的团队如何互动以成功交付项目。先前有关团队动力与安全性如何相互作用的研究已经存在，但发现与该研究相比其关注点或市场不同。这项研究旨在确定与安全绩效不佳的团队相比，南非的建筑团队在世界一流的安全绩效方面存在的安全气候特征。修改后的安全金字塔（Zohar，2010年）提供了一个有用的概念模型，以研究与施工团队相关的安全绩效与安全气候之间的联系。通过结合文献观察并主要采用《安全气候问卷》（SCQ），确定了许多可直接测量的因素，这些因素可与安全绩效相关联，并在本次调查中用于确定世界范围内施工团队的安全气候的独特特征。一流的安全性能。施工队的安全气氛特征分为工作压力，事件调查，程序是否充分，沟通和培训，关系，个人防护装备，备件和安全性八类。先前研究中开发的框架用于评估安全用户对安全绩效观察的响应。发现组织内部的关系是安全绩效的主要促成因素，也是通过适当的程序，培训和沟通以包容性管理方式强制实施安全氛围的方式。这也支持了Cohen（1977）的结果。关键字：施工队，安全气候