Social identity, safety climate and self-reported accidents among construction workers

Figures & data

Figure 1. Correlations between construction worker identification, safety climate and accidents at work.

Notes: **p < 0.01; *p < 0.05; † = 0.10.

Table 1. Phase of construction the construction workers were working on during the study.

	N	%
Foundation and framing phase	170	35.5
Technical phase	165	34.5
Interior phase	143	30.0

Table 2. Construction workers.

	Mean	SD
Years working in same workgroup	2.30	5.01
Identity at the workgroup level	4.81*	0.86
Identity at the site level	4.21*	0.97
Safety climate at the workgroup level	4.38*	0.83
Safety climate at the site level	3.95*	0.89

* Descriptive data, identity and safety climate Likert scale of 1–6 (strongly disagree to strongly agree).

Table 3. Construction workers’ social identity at the workgroup level and at the construction site level.

	Identity at the workgroup level			Identity at the construction sites level
	N	Mean*	SD	N	Mean*	SD
All workers	478	4.81	0.86	470	4.21	0.97
Company 1	48	4.87	0.75	46	4.16	0.98
Company 4	28	4.45	0.92	28	3.83	0.95
Company 5	12	4.63	0.99	12	4.12	1.25
Company 6	54	4.84	0.95	56	4.11	1.01
Company 7	10	4.50	1.01	10	4.10	0.92
Company 8	10	4.63	0.76	10	4.59	0.78
Company 9	72	4.90	0.70	72	4.17	0.81
Company 10	38	4.99	0.65	38	3.71	0.90
Company 11	16	4.66	0.75	16	4.02	0.76
Company 12	13	4.32	1.29	13	3.07	1.05
Company 13	23	4.70	1.03	24	4.16	0.81
Company 14	19	5.02	0.49	19	4.22	0.54
Company 16	24	4.50	0.78	24	3.75	0.94
Company 17	88	5.01	0.96	88	4.90	0.91

* Means on a Likert scale of 1–6 (strongly disagree to strongly agree. Only companies with more than 10 worker respondents are shown).