A proposed framework of measuring maturity of safety leadership in construction

Construction is an industry with high-risk work safety. The construction industry contributes to many work accidents globally, more than 60,000 fatal accidents per year. To improve safety performance in construction, maturity of leadership could be the key to obtain the safety culture in construction. The maturity of leadership described by a framework called leadership maturity model. In particular, the model was proposed to the project owner. This stakeholder often becomes secondary priority to be assessed after the contractor and consultants. Even though, the project owner plays an important role of project success in terms of safety. The model was developed with Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) method. The development indication of the maturity model is to identifying research variables for the assessment using SEM. The first level to determine the leadership maturity is by maturity variable in psychological and sociological aspects of the project owner. The second level represents by the maturity aspect in participative of the project owner. The third level of maturity is the maturity aspect of dialog between stakeholders. The last level of maturity is by the maturity of the technical aspect of construction engineering.