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Role of Psychological Contract to Influence Safety Behaviour at Construction Sites

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Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors (AHFE 2018)

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Viewing safety through the lens of the ‘Psychological Contract’ and considering the influence of supervisor on construction site, this research proposes a ‘Psychological Contract of Safety’ (PCS) which is based on the mutual obligations to safety between supervisor and workers, predicts safety behaviour at a construction site. In order to test this hypothesis, data were collected from a mega-construction project in Sydney, Australia. The empirical data indicates that there is a strong influence of the PCS on the safety behaviour of individual workers. Using Structural Equation Modelling this research tested a survey instrument that can be used in other construction settings to examine the strength of the mutual relationship between supervisors and workers and its influence on safety behaviour.

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  1. School of Architecture and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

    Mohammad Tanvi Newaz, Peter Davis & Marcus Jefferies

  2. School of Health Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

    Manikam Pillay

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Newaz, M.T., Davis, P., Jefferies, M., Pillay, M. (2019). Role of Psychological Contract to Influence Safety Behaviour at Construction Sites. In: Arezes, P. (eds) Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 791. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94589-7_53

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