Workplace Safety Climate Surveys for City Center and Cosmopolitan Construction Projects, Las Vegas, Nevada (Final Report)

Contents

Acknowledgments
Detailed contents of the Final Report
A. Introduction
B. Methods
C. Results

1. Construction Workers
2. Foreman
3. Superintendents
4. Executives
5. Comparison of 4 groups

D. Conclusions and Recommendations
Appendices
References

CPWR – The Center for Construction Research and Training Work site Assessment Team- Final Report on the Workplace Safety Climate Surveys

A. INTRODUCTION

In June of 2008, the Perini Building Corporation and Nevada Building Trades negotiated a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) specifying that CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training (CPWR) would provide training and a work site assessment of the City Center and Cosmopolitan construction projects. After an initial site visit in June 2008, the CPWR's Work site Assessment Team determined that its assessment would include the following six components:

• Safety climate survey of Perini senior management, superintendents, foremen and craft workers to assess perceptions and attitudes about safety on the sites. The analysis includes descriptive and psychometric analyses; mean comparisons on safety climate surveys by organizational levels and other key background characteristics; and multiple regression analyses to identify important factors associated with safety performance. The preliminary analyses were completed in December 2008 based on 1,600 workers. The final analyses were completed in January 2009 based on 3,500 workers, 134 Foremen, 61 Superintendents, and 17 Top Management Executives.
• Observations and Recommendations on Perini's Safety Orientation Training Program; (Completed November 2008)
• Observations and Recommendations on Perini's safety staff by accompanying Perini personnel and observing interactions with personnel on-site (Completed November 2008) ;
• Observations and Recommendation on Perini's safety management programs and practices (Completed November 2008);
• Observations and Recommendations based on face - to - face interviews with selected personnel on both City Center and Cosmopolitan projects (Completed November 2008);
• A fall hazard identification and control audit of selected buildings on-site (Aria and Mandarin). Completed September, 2008.

Safety Climate Survey Four safety climate surveys, developed by a team of occupational and safety and health experts, were designed to gauge perceptions of workers, foremen, superintendents, and top management executives as to the "climate/temperature" of safety practices on both the City Center and Cosmopolitan job sites. The rationale for measuring the temperature was to assess perceived attitudes, knowledge and beliefs about safety practices on both sites, which could lead to the development of preventive strategies to improve communication and safe work practices. Overall, this knowledge and changes in work practices may lead to increased productivity and profits by reducing costs associated with lost work-days, work stoppages and work-related injuries and illness. The indirect costs associated with work injuries and illness, which include compromised organizational image, quality of work, workplace morale, and the likelihood of success in future bidding on projects, can be affected by identifying areas for improvement based on the results of this survey. Both the Perini Building Company and the Southern Nevada Building Trades Council indicated to CPWR that an assessment of the safety climate on the projects would be beneficial and should be a key component of CPWR's overall assessment activities.

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