ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS AFFECTING BEHAVIOR BASED SAFETY PROGRAM AND PERFORMANCE: A STUDY IN OIL AND GAS CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN THAILAND

By

Jittanun Phuangphay

Abstract

             

The construction industry is a dangerous job when compared with other sectors because the nature of construction projects is very complicated. Many of the activities within the construction industry are associated with accidents and diseases. Safety Management System is one of the key things that the project should be concerned with especially in Oil and Gas Projects in Thailand. In depth, the project looks at the safety behavior of individuals to solve the safety related issues in the workplace. Therefore, this study was carried out to identify the factors that affect the behavior based safety and to study effective behavior based safety concentrating upon methods and practices by performance of the worker behavior.

To achieve the objective of the study, 8 main factors for the study were identified affecting behavior based safety. In addition, there are 10 factors under implementation for behavior based safety methods and practices which help to measure the safety behavior of worker. The study was conducted through Quantitative Research. Statistical hypothesis was done using the correlation model with SPSS program to find out the factors affecting behavior based safety and to find out the effectiveness of behavior based safety methods and practices in Oil and Gas Project in Thailand. For this purpose, the questionnaire intends to seek answers from the Director, Safety manager, Safety engineer, Safety officer of the project.

Moreover, to achieve another objective of the study, the organizational factor is very effective on worker’s safety behavior because all of the factors inside the organizational factors come from the vision, mission and perspective of top management level. However, the behavior based safety is less effective on worker safety behavior when it is compared with the organizational factors because all of factors inside behavior based safety implementations methods and practices come from the management of operation level.

Furthermore, the findings also suggest important factors needed for the implementation of the project to understand the strengths as well as the weaknesses of the behavior based safety methods as well as to talk about the important factors impact on behavior based safety. Therefore, the Safety officer will carefully understand the impact of their worker’s safety behavior. In addition, recommendations for further studies are suggested.

Executive summary

Rationale of research

This research has been conducted to understand the behavior based safety in oil and gas construction industry of Thailand.

Objectives of study

To study effective methods and efficient practices in behavior base safety implementation and to identify the organizational factors affect to behavior based safety. To examine the influence of factors and implementation (methods and practices) on worker safety behavior

Methodology  

Using questionnaire to collect data and interview the expert in the project at least the medium construction company in Thailand. The respondent of this study are the safety managers and project manager on Construction Company.

This study consists of conceptual stage, conceptual framework, hypothesis development questionnaire, data collection, data analysis and conclusion.

Findings and conclusion

This study is considered about the safety issue in construction industry especially in Oil and Gas sector. Because the construction industry involves dangerous work because the construction job is very complicated and involved many different parties, each activity is always participating with accident and injuries. Therefore, in construction industry, they always the company have to concern about safety as everybody safely. Therefore, this study tries to find which organizational factors affect to implementation methods and lead to worker behavior base safety. The main objective of this research is “to study factor that affects behavior base safety. Second objective is to study effective behavior based safety implementation (method and practices). In addition, to finding the factors, this study was reviewing discussing from many research, and theories, those who emphasis on effective safety system. Also, this study has been interviewing with the expert person.

Although the data collection requires many projects for corporation, most of them are busy with their job. Therefore, some projects did not attend, interview, and support to answer the questionnaire. Only the projects that realize the importance of academic research have paid attention in this study and allow collecting the data. There are 15 companies with 36 projects and 36 respondents in data collection. Most of the project locations are in Rayong province. The research was collect in contractor of oil & gas Construction Company. The framework of this research is tries to find the factor affect to the implementation methods and practices. In addition, this factors leads to improve the behavior of safety worker. There are 8 factors to study in this research; safety policy, top management commitment, company strategy, leadership, accident cost reduction, total quality management and quality improvement, customer requirement, and corporate social responsibility. Moreover, The behavior based safety implementation method and practice are including 10 items in this research; setting safety goal, assessment, training, coaching, observation data collection, rewarding, warning, safety communication and feedback, safety talk and tool box meeting. As showed all factors in this research, these factors were found from determining previous research and many theories.