Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 181 Chatham Rd. South, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Gardens Point, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Mar 9;15(3):484. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15030484.
In many countries, it is common practice to attract and employ ethnic minority (EM) or migrant workers in the construction industry. This primarily occurs in order to alleviate the labor shortage caused by an aging workforce with a lack of new entrants. Statistics show that EM construction workers are more likely to have occupational fatal and nonfatal injuries than their local counterparts; however, the mechanism underlying accidents and injuries in this vulnerable population has been rarely examined. This study aims to investigate relationships among safety climate, safety behavior, and safety outcomes for EM construction workers. To this end, a theoretical research model was developed based on a comprehensive review of the current literature. In total, 289 valid questionnaires were collected face-to-face from 223 Nepalese construction workers and 56 Pakistani construction workers working on 15 construction sites in Hong Kong. Structural equation modelling was employed to validate the constructs and test the hypothesized model. Results show that there were significant positive relationships between safety climate and safety behaviors, and significant negative relationships between safety behaviors and safety outcomes for EM construction workers. This research contributes to the literature regarding EM workers by providing empirical evidence of the mechanisms by which safety climate affects safety behaviors and outcomes. It also provides insights in order to help the key stakeholders formulate safety strategies for EM workers in many areas where numerous EM workers are employed, such as in the U.S., the UK, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Middle East.
在许多国家，吸引和雇用少数民族（EM）或移民工人在建筑行业工作是一种常见做法。这样做主要是为了缓解由于劳动力老龄化和新进入者缺乏而导致的劳动力短缺。统计数据显示，少数民族建筑工人的职业致命和非致命伤害比当地工人更常见；然而，这个脆弱群体事故和伤害的机制很少被研究。本研究旨在调查少数民族建筑工人的安全氛围、安全行为和安全结果之间的关系。为此，我们在对现有文献进行全面回顾的基础上，提出了一个理论研究模型。总共从香港 15 个建筑工地的 223 名尼泊尔建筑工人和 56 名巴基斯坦建筑工人中面对面收集了 289 份有效问卷。结构方程模型被用来验证结构和测试假设模型。结果表明，少数民族建筑工人的安全氛围与安全行为之间存在显著的正相关关系，安全行为与安全结果之间存在显著的负相关关系。本研究通过提供安全氛围影响安全行为和结果的机制的实证证据，为少数民族工人的文献做出了贡献。它还提供了一些见解，以便帮助利益相关者为在美国、英国、澳大利亚、新加坡、马来西亚和中东等许多雇用大量少数民族工人的地区制定少数民族工人的安全策略。
