Report Details Safety Culture & Climate in Construction Workshop

A new report, "Safety Culture & Climate in Construction: Bridging the Gap Between Research & Practice," reveals outcomes from a recent workshop that focused on safety culture and safety climate and how the two impact worker safety and health in the construction industry. The workshop, held by NIOSH and the Center for Construction Research and Training (CPWR), provided sessions on ways to measure safety climate, interventions for improving safety climate, and how to define safety culture and climate in construction. In addition, the event helped identify steps that construction industry stakeholders can take to improve safety culture and safety climate. Such steps include improving site safety leadership, aligning and integrating safety as a value, optimizing management commitment and ensuring accountability.

The report includes descriptions of each session, session handouts, a list of safety culture and climate assessment tools, and results of participants' workshop evaluations. Visit CPWR's website to view the report.