A comparative analysis between contractors' and inspectors' perceptions of the department of labour occupational health and safety inspectorate relative to South African construction

作者：Geminiani F L^*; Smallwood J J; Fee S

来源：Safety Science, 2013, 53: 186-192.

DOI：10.1016/j.ssci.2012.10.003

• Occupational health and safety inspectorate
• Effectiveness
• Perception
• Inspections
• Legislation

A doctoral study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness and performance of the Department of Labour (DoL) Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) Inspectorate in South Africa. Information was sought and obtained from various respondents including building and civil contractors, OH&S consultants, project managers, DoL inspectors, and designers by means of a questionnaire survey. The salient findings of the study elucidate that the DoL OH&S Inspectorate is not perceived as effective in terms of OH&S or as a means of assuring compliance according to contractors in South Africa.
This paper presents a comparative analysis of the perceptions of the contractors and the Department of Labour (DoL) inspectors in terms of the performance of the DoL OH&S Inspectorate. Mean scores, mean rankings, t-values and p-values enabled the perceptions of the two stakeholder groups to be analysed. Analysis of the contractors' mean responses ((x) over bar (contractors)) and the inspectors' mean responses ((x) over bar (inspectors)) revealed that six of the ten performance aspects had statistically significantly different mean scores, highlighting the contractors' perceptions as statistically significantly different to the inspectors' perceptions. This paper provides a discussion of the performance aspects relative to the DoL Inspectorate's responsibility of assuring OH&S, and benchmarks the current gap in perceptions between inspectors and contractors in South Africa.

• 出版日期2013-3