D6-4　Questionnaire for Construction Worker Risk Taking (Q-CWRT) in Hong Kong

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Accident prevention is a major health and safety concern in the construction sector and understanding risk-taking behavior plays an essential role in this initiative. The efficient measurement of workers' risk-taking propensity would be a pragmatic approach. Several instruments can be used for measuring risk-taking behavior, but instruments pertinent for construction workers are rare. This study aims to establish a questionnaire for construction workers' risk taking (Q-CWRT) by adapting the explained theory of planned behavior (ETPB), which consists of organizational,workplace and individual-related factors. This questionnaire includes 188 valid samples (156 male and 32 female), and 12 factors with 41 items were extracted based on the results of exploratory factor analysis. The Q-CWRT goodness-of-fit results were achieved (CMIN = 1.4, CFI = 0.925, TLI = 0.912, RMSEA = 0.046, SRMR = 0.0625, and p < 0.05) using confirmatory factor analysis. This study demonstrated the potential of the proposed new and prominent instrument that would help employers in acquiring better understanding of factors that contribute to improving safety performance.