Abstract

Construction is a dangerous industry when it comes to workplace injuries, and workers' unsafe behaviour accounts for 80–90% of the injuries. How risk is perceived by individuals and groups affects safety behaviour, and this study examined how different occupational groups on construction sites perceived safety and risk and how these perceptions influenced behaviours and practices related to safety cooperation. Over a period of 4 months, 36 semi-structured interviews and 36 days of observations were carried out with different occupational groups at two construction sites. The results showed that a rational way of perceiving safety and risks was most prominent among project managers, whereas an intuitive way of perceiving safety and risks was prominent among workers. Furthermore, foremen at the two sites voiced a perception of safety and risk that was ‘in between' these two approaches. The results also showed that the differences in perceptions of risk and safety had implications for safety cooperation at the sites which arguably lead to unsafe safety behaviour/practice. Acknowledging and integrating different perceptions of risk and safety could be a valuable starting point for construction safety management and could improve cooperation about safety.

摘要

在工伤方面，建筑业是一个危险的行业，工人的不安全行为占工伤的80-90％。个人和群体如何感知风险如何影响安全行为，并且本研究研究了建筑工地上的不同职业群体如何感知安全和风险，以及这些感知如何影响与安全合作相关的行为和实践。在四个月的时间里，在两个建筑工地对不同职业的人群进行了36次半结构化访谈和36天的观察。结果表明，在项目经理中，感知安全和风险的合理方法最为突出，而在工人中，感知安全和风险的直观方法则最为突出。此外，两个地点的工头表达了对这两种方法之间“安全性和风险性”的认识。结果还表明，风险和安全观念的差异对现场的安全合作产生了影响，可以说会导致不安全的安全行为/做法。认识和整合对风险和安全的不同认识可能是建筑安全管理的宝贵起点，并且可以改善安全方面的合作。