Impact significance of construction clients’ culture on contractors’ health and safety (H&S) culture- an exploratory Delphi study

Contractors’ top management has been identified in many studies to be of great importance to H&S performance and continual improvement. Therefore developing strategies that support and motivate contractor top management, implement H&S elements would ensure a gradual and sustained improvement of H&S in the construction industry. This way construction workers’ H&S can be assured and in so doing achieve sustainability in the industry through skills preservation. The paper reports on an analysis of impact significance of clients on contractors. It will underscore the point that has been made before using different methodologies that client H&S culture is critical to contractors’ H&S culture because it is crucial to H&S performanc