Evaluating Safety Compliance History as an Indicator of Attentional Allocation and Unsafe Response Inhibition among Construction Workers

Abstract

AbstractEffective hazard recognition in construction environments requires workers to allocate attention to hazard-related cues and inhibit unsafe or impulsive responses. Although safety compliance is widely adopted as an indicator of construction workers’...Practical ApplicationsThe findings of this study suggest that current safety performance evaluations based on behavioral compliance rates may overlook cognitive factors that influence workers’ ability to respond to hazards. The implication for safety ...