China Safety Science Journal ›› 2017, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (4): 31-36.doi: 10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2017.04.006

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Study on construction workers'attitude to safety and its affecting factors

CHEN Xuefeng1, CHEN Wentao2   

  1. 1 School of Civil and Resource Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083,China
    2 China Occupation Safety and Health Association, Beijing 100013, China
  • Received:2016-11-29 Revised:2017-02-16 Published:2020-11-22

Abstract: For the sake of studying the attitude of construction workers to safety and its influencing factors, a safety worker attitude model of construction workers was built. An instrument was developed for measuring construction workers'attitude to safety. The attitude of the construction workers was studied from the three dimensions of cognitive, emotional and behavioral tendencies. A survey on 100 construction workers was conducted by means of copies of a questionnaire. The instrument was validated by the survey, 34 factors of safety attitude, including gender, age, and work experience, were analyzed. 15 main influencing factors were identified, such as working years, salary and welfare. A model was built for factors influencing construction workers'attitude to safety. The results show that the main factors influencing construction workers' attitude to safety are working years, salary welfare and other 15 and that for individuals, the factor having the greatest influence on the attitude is the management comprehensive influence factors.

Key words: safety attitude, questionnaire, influencing factors, correlation analysis, principal component analysis

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