Quantitative tool for measuring safety culture on busy construction sites in Great Britain

This thesis is aimed at developing an academically robust, cost effective tool /procedure for measuring safety culture that is easily administered on a busyconstruction site in Great Britain.This researcher works as a safety manager on construction sites and is typicallyemployed on multi-million pound new build projects for blue-chip clients. Thesesites typically employ between 1-3,000 workers. Keeping workers safe ischallenging and important, not only from the legal and ethical perspectives butalso to ensure the companies reputations. To this end all of the companies andclients that this researcher has worked for in the last 15 years have been keenand vocal in their attempts to improve the safety culture on site. The researcherhas witnessed large sums of money being spent in an attempt to make suchimprovements.Typically, companies wish to see tangible results after having invested money inorder to facilitate change or improvements. Investing money to improve the sitesafety culture should be no different. This is where the difficulties arise andwhere a gap in knowledge has been identified by this research