A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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Construction Safety Training Interventions: State of the Science and Future Opportunities
Construction safety training interventions are widely adopted to enhance workplace safety and reduce injury rates. Unfortunately, desirable levels of safety performance or return on investments have not been achieved in practice as per previous research. To address this issue, a large body of research has focused on designing, developing, and testing construction safety training interventions. These efforts have significantly advanced our understanding of how training can be leveraged to enhance safety outcomes. However, this large body of research is fragmented and dispersed across various sources. This paper provides a concise synthesis of research related to safety training interventions and answers the following questions: (1) what type of training interventions have been designed, developed, and tested; (2) what safety outcomes the interventions have sought to target; (3) how the target safety outcomes were measured; and (4) what the future opportunities as per the study findings. This paper will be beneficial to industry stakeholders and professional safety trainers interested in improving safety performance through greater awareness of intervention programs. The article will also serve as a resource to academic researchers interested in the state of the science as it pertains to construction safety training. Practitioners may use the findings to improve training effectiveness in practice, and academic researchers may build upon the findings to develop more robust safety training interventions.
Construction Safety Training Interventions: State of the Science and Future Opportunities
Construction safety training interventions are widely adopted to enhance workplace safety and reduce injury rates. Unfortunately, desirable levels of safety performance or return on investments have not been achieved in practice as per previous research. To address this issue, a large body of research has focused on designing, developing, and testing construction safety training interventions. These efforts have significantly advanced our understanding of how training can be leveraged to enhance safety outcomes. However, this large body of research is fragmented and dispersed across various sources. This paper provides a concise synthesis of research related to safety training interventions and answers the following questions: (1) what type of training interventions have been designed, developed, and tested; (2) what safety outcomes the interventions have sought to target; (3) how the target safety outcomes were measured; and (4) what the future opportunities as per the study findings. This paper will be beneficial to industry stakeholders and professional safety trainers interested in improving safety performance through greater awareness of intervention programs. The article will also serve as a resource to academic researchers interested in the state of the science as it pertains to construction safety training. Practitioners may use the findings to improve training effectiveness in practice, and academic researchers may build upon the findings to develop more robust safety training interventions.
Construction Safety Training Interventions: State of the Science and Future Opportunities
Alsharef, Abdullah (author) / Uddin, S. M. Jamil (author) / Albert, Alex (author) / Bhandari, Siddharth (author) / Jaselskis, Edward (author)
Construction Research Congress 2022 ; 2022 ; Arlington, Virginia
Construction Research Congress 2022 ; 531-540
2022-03-07
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English