Safety Culture Model and Influencing Factors Analysis in Construction Enterprises of China

Abstract: The construction industry is one of the most injury-prone industries and an increasing number of scholars are paying great attention to safety culture in this industry. This study aims to construct a conceptual model of safety culture through recognizing the significance of related influencing factors, helping improve the safety condition of construction enterprises. First, we review the related concepts and the structure of safety culture. Then we propose the level of safety culture in Chinese construction enterprises and construct safety culture model based on the structure of safety culture. After that, we extract several influence factors in connection with safety culture from the original literature and utilize the questionnaire to collect data in spot investigation. And factor analysis is used to process the collected data to get the affecting coefficient that the different influence factors contribute to safety culture. Through analyzing the collected data, we improved the conceptual model in order to reflect the influence of different factors on safety culture better. And construction enterprises can get some enlightens from the improved model when they engage in improving the safety condition of their enterprises