Workplace Safety
In all organizations, there is a certain culture that is formulated which is aimed at enabling the employees to manage to operate in the most effective way, and at the same time to protect them from any form of physical or mental harm that might be brought about by their activities in the workplace. This article aims at examining how the many accidents that occur in the dam construction project relate to the safety culture established in the project. 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.
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).
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 will be done by using at least two workers from every level of the dam construction site. I this process, the main aim is to obtain information from various random individuals operating within the project concerning safety culture that is established. To obtain this information, the data sampling will utilize the use of surveys and questionnaires where research participants will provide answers to those questions.
Types of Secondary Data used to Test the Hypothesis and Why
Currently, safety is an issue that affects almost all workplace environments, and thus, for this reason, many individuals have provided research studies and other forms of potential sources where I can obtain information to help prove my hypothesis. As stated earlier, my hypothesis claims that the many accidents that have taken place in the workplace directly relate to the safety culture established within that workplace. The research studies that can contribute as secondary sources in helping me prove the hypothesis are the ones that explain about safety issues in the workplace and then analyze that workplace with information that can help me understand the safety culture within it. Such information is significantly important and useful because, with it, I can compare the occurrence of accidents within the workplace and relate that data with the safety culture of the organization where these safety issues occurred. This will provide me with the understanding of how often accidents that relate to safety cultures occur, and how often those that do not occur. The information will thus contribute significantly to my determination of whether the safety culture relates with accident occurrence in the workplace (Hughes, & Ferrett, 2011).
Measurement and Measurement Scales
A survey with measurement scales would be significantly appropriate in testing my hypothesis. To begin with, the hypothesis needs to assess whether any relationship that occurs within the workplace has any relationship with the safety culture within it. With this understanding, two main assessments should be done. The first form of assessment is determining the ability of the safety culture to prevent the occurrence of accidents within the workplace. The second assessment is determining the causes of the accidents within the workplace. After attaining these measurements in random workplace environments, I will thus be able to determine whether the workplace accidents occurrence is different for those with a culture that has high accident prevention capability and those with low prevention capability. Obtaining such information from a survey will enable me to acquire a stand in my hypothesis.
References
Darvishi, E. (2015). Safety Culture Assessment and its Relationship with Accidents in a Dam.
Construction Project.
Hughes, P. & Ferrett, E. (2011). Introduction to health and safety at work. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.
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