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A constructionist examination of construction site culture: Review of a pilot study

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posted on 2023-07-26, 13:50 authored by Fred Sherratt, Peter Farrell, Rod Noble
Recent developments in the UK construction industry have led to behavioural and cultural safety programmes becoming a key tool in the prevention of health and safety incidents on construction sites for major contractors. However, the synchronicity of these programmes with the established UK construction site culture can be challenged, and indeed the success of these change programmes has yet to be proven. An on-going PhD study to investigate how safety is placed and embedded within the culture of UK construction sites, including a review of the impact of these cultural change programmes, has recently completed a pilot study. The pilot used photography and unstructured interviews to produce a rich variety of data, which could be examined from a social constructionist epistemological stance using discourse analysis. This analysis suggested that there were areas of potential conflict with the dominant construction site culture and the behavioural and cultural change programmes, as well as friction between the form and direction of the discourses used within the programmes and those found to be more prevalent on sites. Evaluation of the pilot study suggested the methods employed had the potential to productively address the issues surrounding site safety culture.

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Page range

341-350

Publisher

ARCOM

ISBN

978-0-9552390-5-2

Conference proceeding

Proceedings 27th Annual ARCOM Conference

Name of event

27th Annual ARCOM Conference

Location

Bristol, UK

Event start date

2011-09-05

Event finish date

2011-09-07

File version

  • Published version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2016-07-18

Legacy creation date

2016-06-20

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Medical Science (until September 2018)

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