Hubner, Marilyn (2016) Constructing Safety Training: Foundations of Attitudes and Perceptions of the Construction Site Supervisor. PhD thesis, Victoria University.

Abstract

Safety-training interventions are common across all Australian workplaces due to the legislative requirement to provide a safe working environment. As a safety practitioner, I often work with workers who are forced to attend training programs and, as a consequence, do not want to participate. In my ten years of delivering safety training, attitudes of ‘boring’, ‘irrelevant’, and ‘already know it all’ are common barriers to effective training. My investigation into the construction industry sought to unearth the foundational principles that determine attitudes and perceptions of supervisors toward safety training, and trace the impact that these attitudes have on organisational values and safety practice. I sought to reveal how the attitudes and perceptions of construction site supervisors can be mediated to produce effective safety-training situations and, as such, move toward reducing the injuries and fatalities that plague the construction industry.

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