Summary Statement
A multifaceted study of occupational safety culture and habits in the Irish construction industry.
2002
| Factor
Non-compliance | Management
Factor 1
(scale 1- 5) | Management
Factor 2
(scale 1- 5) | Safety
Rep. on
site? | Reporting | Fixing | Stop
working | Follow
working | Site 3 | 2.28 | 4.12 | 4.00 | 2 (Yes) | 37.38 | 22.43 | 26.80 | 13.40 | Site 2 | 2.71 | 2.50 | 4.00 | 2 | 76.61 | 5.85 | 6.76 | 10.78 | Site 7 | 7.14 | 3.50 | 3.00 | 2 | 59.98 | 18.31 | 17.61 | 4.08 | Site 15 | 7.14 | 4.37 | 3.00 | 2 | 42.95 | 25.76 | 12.70 | 18.60 | Site 11 | 7.85 | 3.62 | 2.50 | 2 | 75.90 | 15.26 | .88 | 7.96 | Site 12 | 5.00 | 4.12 | 2.50 | 2 | 70.48 | 17.06 | 5.56 | 6.88 | Site 5 | 14.00 | 2.50 | 3.00 | 1 (No) | 58.91 | 5.18 | 19.25 | 16.65 | Site 18 | 12.85 | 4.00 | 2.50 | 1 | 31.25 | 34.16 | 3.33 | 31.25 | Site 13 | 10.00 | 1.37 | 2.00 | 1 | 45.55 | 26.46 | 5.55 | 22.40 | Site 6 | 11.71 | 2.85 | 2.00 | 1 | 37.30 | 6.38 | 23.86 | 32.48 | Site 14 | 12.14 | 2.87 | 2.00 | 1 | 47.26 | 27.28 | 4.85 | 20.61 | Site 4 | 12.85 | 1.12 | 1.50 | 1 | 32.26 | 17.41 | 36.55 | 13.81 | Site 17 | 15.00 | 2.87 | 2.50 | 1 | 50.36 | 26.58 | 13.11 | 9.93 | Site 1 | 15.71 | 3.50 | 1.00 | 1 | 68.38 | 25.31 | .00 | 6.31 | Site 16 | 20.71 | 4.12 | 2.00 | 1 | 28.60 | 57.58 | 3.03 | 10.80 | Site 10 | 24.85 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 1 | 47.63 | 16.66 | 7.15 | 28.60 | | Factor
Non-compliance | R=
-.2709
(p= .310)
| R=
-.6604
(p= .005) | R=
-.7870
(p= .000) | R=
-.3623
(p= .168) | R=
-.3785
(p= .148) | R=
-.1898
(p= .481) | R=
-.3305
(p= .211) | | | Management
Factor 1 | R=
.3572
(p= .146) | R=
.4901
(p= .054) | R=
.0535
(p= .844) | R=
.3779
(p= .149) | R=
-.3203
(p= .226) | R=
-.2553
(p= .340) | | | | Management
Factor 2 | R=
.6931
(p= .003) | R=
.2031
(p= .451) |
R= -.2904 (p= .275)
| R=
.1748
(p= .517) | R=
-.1545
(p= .568) | | | | | Safety
Rep. on
site? | R=
.5074
(p= .032) | R=
-.2698
(p= .279) | R=
.0006
(p= .998) | R=
-.4868
(p= .040) | Table
23: Visual and statistical correlations. Table ordered to show visual correlations
between Non- compliance and Management- Factor 2. Other correlations shown
are presence of Safety Representative on site and Preferred behaviour of
operatives in the face of danger. |