Research Project-Week Three

WORKPLACE SAFETY 1

Workplace Safety

Stephanie Charles

BUS 642

September 19, 2016

Loay Alnaji

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Article: Safety Culture Assessment and its Relationship with Accidents in a Dam Construction

Project.

The article aims to address the safety culture assessments of a specific workplace. The

article looks at how accidents that occur in the dam site relate with the safety culture

assessments. Safety culture assessment requires an organization or an enterprise identifying all

the hindrances that prevent workers of an organization from having good performances in the

workplace. Safety culture assessment measures the dam workers’ perceptions about how

effective the safety culture of the dam project management group. The safety culture assessment

acts as a report for the dam project management on the major and minor safety issues that

warrant their attention. The safety culture assessment also looks to find all the hindrances that

exist in the dam project and ways to improve any safety issues.

Safety culture assessment provides a benchmark for safety measures project sites use and

how efficient and effective they are. The assessment offers a platform for comparison between

one project site and another. The safety assessment culture provides a way which employees or

workers use to voice their concerns, state problems and commend the project management on

issues concerning the safety at the workplace or project site. Project sites are prone to accidents.

The dam project management ignores the safety culture. When the management does not take

keen consideration on improving employee safety coupled with ignorance of safety culture, the

number of accidents at the project sites and workplace increase. Safety culture assessment uses

four tools. The four safety assessment tools include; safety culture survey, safety management

systems evaluation, structured interviews and leadership evaluation and development for safety

assessment tools.

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Article research question

What is the cause of the accidents that occur within the dam construction sites? The

article seeks to find out the reasons behind the accidents that occur within the dam construction

sites.

Background Research

A complete safety culture assessment could reveal the causes of accidents at the

construction site of the dam. A complete safety culture assessment uses all four tools to do a

complete assessment.

The Article’s Hypothesis

The hypothesis of the article is that there is a direct co-relation between accidents

occurring at the dam construction sites and the safety culture. The article seeks to prove that poor

safety culture directly leads to accidents occurring in the dam construction sites. The alternative

hypothesis would, therefore, be there is no relationship between safety culture and the accidents

that occur at the dam construction site (Daryshi, 2015).

Ethical Concerns

The ethical concerns in the study are concerned with the tools used in the safety

assessment. In the interviews concerning safety issues, workers could be trained to answer

questions to avoid making the leaders of the project look bad. Avoiding the true answers

compromises the study. Another ethical concern is that there are not enough qualified project

managers to ensure safety culture assessment is implemented properly. It is important to educate

the project managers on safety policies and safety culture (Hanizzam Awang, 2016).

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Preliminary research design

For the research data is collected using observation of the workplace safety measures put

in place, interviews with the workers and project managers and submission of questionnaires to

the employees and project leaders. All questionnaires and interviews will have questions that

relate to safety concerns, policies and issues at the dam construction site.

Data sampling for research

The data sampling is done by using at least two workers from every level of the dam

construction site. Data sampling ensures there is a wide range of data which improves the

quality and accuracy of results.

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1. The data sampling is

done by using at least two

workers from every level of

the dam construction site.

Data sampling ensures

there is a wide range of

data which improves the

quality and accuracy of

results.

Ok, but what does the

sampling look like? Do you

plan on giving them surveys

to fill? Ask them questions

(qualitative approach)?

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References

Darvishi, E. (2015). Safety Culture Assessment and its Relationship with Accidents in a Dam

Construction Project. Retrieved from: https://scholar.google.com/citations?

view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=pZRV8lUA

AAJ&citation_for_view=pZRV8lUAAAAJ:ufrVoPGSRksC

Hanizzam Awang, M. A. (2016). Construction Methods And Technology. Penerbit USM.

Taylor, D. J. (2012). Safety Culture: Assessing and Changing the Behaviour of Organisations. Gower Publishing.

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