Employers' Beliefs to the Usage of Safety Footwear in the Chinese Construction Industry

Abstract

This paper reports a work to investigate the employers' beliefs to the usage of safety footwear in the Chinese construction industry. Questionnaire survey based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) is applied as the research technique and six items corresponding to participants' behavioural beliefs, normative beliefs, and control beliefs were included in the survey form. Investigation was carried out among 15 construction project managers who were in charge of 15 construction projects. The means of the TPB components revealed that participants have positive behavioural beliefs and control beliefs toward the behaviour, while negative normative beliefs to the behaviour. It was suggested that normative beliefs is needed to be improved and there is plenty of room for this potential changing.