There is an increasing interest in integrating occupational safety into contemporary organizations’ management systems for the continual prevention of work-related injury, ill-health, and death. However, we know little about the micro-processes of managerial safety practices, particularly in understanding how organizational members enact competing organizational goals in their everyday work activities. This paper examines the mundane day-to-day practices by which construction site and project managers balance seemingly paradoxical demands in their everyday work. Using a combination of observational, interview and documentary data collected from three Danish construction projects, this study shows how institutional complexity (logics of professionalism, production, and regulation) affects managers’ safety-related thinking, motivation, and practice, and how managers beneficially bridge multiple institutional logics through: 1) Silent acknowledgment, 2) A collaborative relational network, and 3) Dynamic decision-making. The paper contributes to the literature on safety management by outlining how managers on the ground balance safety paradoxes and, thus, transcend either-or understandings of safety. These insights are highly relevant as they show concrete ways in which managers attend to competing demands simultaneously and how safety can be integrated into managerial safety practices.

人们越来越关注将职业安全纳入当代组织的管理系统，以持续预防与工作有关的伤害、健康不良和死亡。然而，我们对管理安全实践的微观过程知之甚少，尤其是在了解组织成员如何在日常工作活动中制定相互竞争的组织目标方面。本文研究了建筑工地和项目经理在日常工作中平衡看似矛盾的需求的平凡日常实践。本研究结合从三个丹麦建筑项目收集的观察、访谈和文献数据，展示了制度复杂性（专业、生产和监管的逻辑）如何影响管理人员与安全相关的思维、动机和实践，以及管理者如何通过以下方式有益地弥合多种制度逻辑：1) 无声承认，2) 协作关系网络，以及 3) 动态决策。该论文概述了基层管理者如何平衡安全悖论，从而超越对安全的非此即彼的理解，从而为有关安全管理的文献做出了贡献。这些见解非常相关，因为它们展示了管理者同时关注竞争需求的具体方式，以及如何将安全整合到管理安全实践中。超越对安全的非此即彼的理解。这些见解非常相关，因为它们展示了管理者同时关注竞争需求的具体方式，以及如何将安全整合到管理安全实践中。超越对安全的非此即彼的理解。这些见解非常相关，因为它们展示了管理者同时关注竞争需求的具体方式，以及如何将安全整合到管理安全实践中。