Safety is an important concern within the construction industry. Many different management strategies exist in the literature, but despite ambitious efforts to improve the safety and prevent accidents, the accident incidence is still unacceptably high. This paper examines the employment of a safety manager in the Swedish construction industry as a strategy to foster a better safety culture, and discusses how the safety manager should approach the project based organisation (PBO). The study uses an abductive approach with an iteration of interviews, observations and a literature study to gain deeper knowledge of the subject. The research comprises a cross sectional interview study of semi-structured interviews to narrate the role of the saf...
It is the responsibility of the employer to keep all workers safe and to promote a healthy work envi...
The accident frequency in the construction industry has shown a downward trend every year but this t...
The focus of this thesis is on the division of legal responsibilities for occupational safety manage...
Safety is an important concern within the construction industry. Many different management strategi...
The construction industry has in the current situation twice as many accidents and work-related heal...
Employers within the Swedish construction industry are required by law to engage in Health and Safet...
The overall aim of this thesis was to identify and describe essential components of safety leadershi...
Safety in the construction industry has become a question of top priority in recent years. Despite a...
All employers in Sweden are required to conform to governmental work environment laws. The employer ...
Sveriges byggarbetsplatser har länge haft en nedåtgående olycksfallsfrekvens fram till 2010 där en u...
Introduktion (och syfte) – Människor på arbetsplatser, oavsett bransch, kan drabbas av bådefysiska o...
The problem of occupational accidents in the construction industry has necessitated a focus on proac...
Strengthening the safety culture with the aim to build safe and healthy workplaces is in focus for m...
Byggbranschen är en olycksdrabbad bransch och det är fortfarande många som råkar ut för olyckor trot...
Safety culture are the common beliefs, values and attitudes that a company have for safety and the w...
It is the responsibility of the employer to keep all workers safe and to promote a healthy work envi...
The accident frequency in the construction industry has shown a downward trend every year but this t...
The focus of this thesis is on the division of legal responsibilities for occupational safety manage...
Safety is an important concern within the construction industry. Many different management strategi...
The construction industry has in the current situation twice as many accidents and work-related heal...
Employers within the Swedish construction industry are required by law to engage in Health and Safet...
The overall aim of this thesis was to identify and describe essential components of safety leadershi...
Safety in the construction industry has become a question of top priority in recent years. Despite a...
All employers in Sweden are required to conform to governmental work environment laws. The employer ...
Sveriges byggarbetsplatser har länge haft en nedåtgående olycksfallsfrekvens fram till 2010 där en u...
Introduktion (och syfte) – Människor på arbetsplatser, oavsett bransch, kan drabbas av bådefysiska o...
The problem of occupational accidents in the construction industry has necessitated a focus on proac...
Strengthening the safety culture with the aim to build safe and healthy workplaces is in focus for m...
Byggbranschen är en olycksdrabbad bransch och det är fortfarande många som råkar ut för olyckor trot...
Safety culture are the common beliefs, values and attitudes that a company have for safety and the w...
It is the responsibility of the employer to keep all workers safe and to promote a healthy work envi...
The accident frequency in the construction industry has shown a downward trend every year but this t...
The focus of this thesis is on the division of legal responsibilities for occupational safety manage...