A Safety Leading Indicator Approach: an Exploratory Study of the Nigeria Construction Sector

EasyChair Preprint no. 6514

Abstract

The construction industry assembles the construction space needed for economic actives. However, the construction industry’s reactive approach to safety has a negative impact on the image of the sector. The current study seeks to determine the extent to which proactive tools, such as safety leading indicators (SLIs), are utilized in the construction sector. The study adopted the use of qualitative research methods, and data was collected using interviewees and webscraping. The analysis of the collected data showed that the construction industry adopts the use of a reactive approach to safety management. In addition, the construction segment of the oil and gas industry utilizes a different approach to safety management when compared with other segments of the construction industry. The adoption of proactive measures, such SLIs, could help to address the poor safety performance in the construction industry.

Keyphrases: construction, Health and Safety, Nigeria, Safety leading indicators, Sentiment Analysis, topic modeling

@Booklet{EasyChair:6514,
  author = {Isimemen Ejohwomu and David Oloke and Lovelin Obi and Olugbenga Oladinrin},
  title = {A Safety Leading Indicator Approach: an Exploratory Study of the Nigeria Construction Sector},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 6514},

  year = {EasyChair, 2021}}