The construction industry has a reputation as one of the most dangerous industries because of
its high rates of incidents, injuries and fatalities. Recently, many approaches have been adapted by
construction companies but most of them were focused on physical working conditions and safety
management system/procedure. An improvement to safety will only be achieved if all project stakeholders
recognise the need to change their belief, attitude, commitment and behaviour to create a good safety
culture. This paper presents a literature review to highlight the need for a culture change towards better
construction safety. The paper then presents case studies on two construction management company -
Bovis Lend Lease and Bechtel Corporation as strategies for developing good construction safety culture,
which includes the objectives, strategies, context and implementation process as well as lessons learned. It
is concluded that it is crucially important to develop a good construction safety culture through changing
the employees’ belief, attitude, commitment and behaviour. Therefore construction safety managers need
to adapt more holistic strategies which focus on not only improving physical working environment and
employees’ safety knowledge, but also on shaping employees’ beliefs and attitude which lead to safe
behaviour and ultimately healthy safety culture
