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The Impact of Organizational Safety Culture on the Resilience Ability : Focused on the Construction Industry

조직의 안전문화가 레질리언스 역량에 미치는 영향 : 건설업을 중심으로

  • Chu, Chan Ho (Graduate School of Management Consulting, Hanyang University) ;
  • An, Kang Min (Graduate School of Management Consulting, Hanyang University) ;
  • Baek, Dong Hyun (Department of Business Administration, Hanyang University ERICA)
  • 추찬호 (한양대학교 일반대학원 경영컨설팅학과) ;
  • 안강민 (한양대학교 일반대학원 경영컨설팅학과) ;
  • 백동현 (한양대학교 경상대학 경영학부)
  • Received : 2021.08.06
  • Accepted : 2021.09.08
  • Published : 2021.09.30
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Abstract

The construction industry is considered to be a fatal accident industry, accounting for 28.5% of the total industrial accidents in 2017, as the number of industrial accidents in the construction industry has steadily increased over the past decade. So it is necessary to consider introducing Resilience Engineering, which is actively applied to risky industries around the world, to drastically reduce construction accidents. Although Resilience Engineering, which has emerged as the next-generation safety management centered on Hollnagel since the 2000s, claims the importance of strengthening Resilience abilities considering organizational structure and culture, most studies focus only on developing evaluation indicators. The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of an organization's safety culture on its Resilience abilities in the construction industry. Specifically, it conducted empirical analysis on the impact of safety culture consisting of 'communication, leadership and safety systems' on the Resilience abilities(responding ability, monitoring ability, learning ability, anticipating ability), and the mediation relationship between leadership, communication, and safety system. The survey was conducted on construction workers, and an empirical analysis was conducted on the final 154 responses using SPSS 25 and Smart PLS 3. The results showed that the safety system had a significant impact on all Resilience Abilities, and communication had a significant impact on the remaining three except for anticipating ability among Resilience Abilities. On the other hand, leadership has been shown to have a significant impact on anticipating ability only. In the verifying of the mediation relationship between leadership, communication and safety systems, it was found that leadership affects all Resilience abilities by means of safety systems, but communication can only affect responding ability. This study has practical significance in that it suggests the need for policy-level efforts to introduce and apply Resilience Engineering and then expanded the effective safety management assessment of the construction industry in the future. Moreover, the academic implications are important in that the study attempted to expand the academic scope for a paradigm shift in the future as the safety culture has identified its impact on the Resilience abilities.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF-2019S1A5C2A04083153).

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