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.