ABSTRACT
Improved safety performance in the workplace is the outcome of management’s commitment to safety. The chapter explores the influence of management safety commitment on workers’ safety compliance and participation. Top management must be seen to adhere to H&S regulations visibly because this communicates its importance to the workers, given that the workers easily imitate top management they admire and regard as role models. The supervisor may be the only form of management with whom some frontline workers get to interact; it is therefore expedient that top management ensures that the supervisors’ safety behaviour aligns with organisational safety policies. Safety commitment from both management and workers is equally important as they both influence safety-related outcomes on construction worksites. To improve safety commitment levels, management must invest in workers’ safety knowledge and competence. This in itself is a demonstration of management safety commitment in the workplace.
