3. The main elements of the core concept of safety culture in the Highway Engineering Construction Projects
The core concept of safety culture in the highway construction is the combination of safety, security, life, spirit,
ideas, behavior and physical condition created by the construction process. The core concept of safety culture in the
highway construction is the sum of safety values and safety standards, and it is the cultural ideas that protect human
health, respect human life so as to realize the value of human1.
There are four main elements of the core concept of safety culture:
3.1 Construction safety is a responsibility
First, each of the construction workers is responsible for their own lives, for a person can only have one life. If
the life did not exist, anything would just indulge in empty talk. The safety risk in the construction site always
exists. Construction workers must constantly think of the concept that "life is priceless" to ensure that personal
safety comes first. Construction safety is one’s best performance to show his or her responsibility for their own
lives’. We have to respect our own lives, and then work thoroughly and carefully.
Secondly, each of the construction personnel is responsible for their parents, relatives, and friends.
Construction staffs work outside year in year out, so they can not often practice the filial piety for their parents by
accompanying them. However, “Body of skin and hair comes from our parents. So we dare not damage, which is the
beginning of the filial piety.” So construction personnel should protect their own health, guarantee their safety, and
then let their parents at ease, which is the most basic form of filial piety. We have other relatives and friends for
whom we should be responsible as well.
Finally, each of the working staff for the construction also has a responsibility for the whole project. We are
builders and managers for the whole project. We have the intentions to do every job well, let our engineering be
completed smoothly in a safe and peaceful environment.
We ought to covert the sense of responsibility into the concept of the safety culture and penetrates it into the
hearts of every staff member. Let the construction staffs learn security-related knowledge from the heart and comply