ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Occupational Health and Safety
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1675086
This article is part of the Research TopicEnhancing Health and Safety for Productivity in the Construction SectorView all 16 articles
Quantifying resilience potentials in construction: Pilot evaluation of the Resilience Assessment Grid
Provisionally accepted
JOSE MARCELO TIERRA-AREVALO1*
María del Carmen Pardo-Ferreira1Pedro M. Arezes2Juan Carlos Rubio-Romero1- 1Universidad de Malaga, Málaga, Spain
- 2Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
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Introduction: The construction sector’s entrenched hazards and enduring accident statistics necessitate a paradigm realignment - from rigid, checklist-driven Safety-I models toward a dynamic, resilience-centered Occupational Health and Safety Management (OHSM) ethos. This study endeavored to architect a 36-item questionnaire - rooted in Resilience Assessment Grid (RAG) and integrated within the Occupational Health and Safety Plan (OHSP) - to interrogate and quantify the sector’s resilience capabilities. Methods: Adopting a five-phase development trajectory, commenced with an RAG-aligned draft, secured content validity via the Individual Aggregate Method, iteratively refined items, achieved expert consensus through a multi-round Delphi panel and conducted a pilot implementation on an active construction site. Reliability metrics (Cronbach’s α = 0.914) and user acceptability were appraised using a six-point Likert continuum. Results: The instrument exhibited robust psychometric properties and operational viability. Empirical findings revealed a provisional “sometimes” alignment with resilient performance across the four RAG pillars - Respond, Monitor, Learn and Anticipate. Spider-diagram visualizations translated complex data into intuitive insights, pinpointing focal areas for resilience enhancement. Conclusions: By transcending conventional audit paradigms, this RAG-based questionnaire delivers a rigorous, actionable blueprint for embedding adaptive capacities within the OHSP. It empowers industry stakeholders and regulators to transition from reactive safety conventions to a proactive, foresight-driven Safety-II framework, fundamentally advancing OHSM in construction.
Keywords: Construction, potentials, Resilience Assessment Grid, safety II, tool
Received: 28 Jul 2025; Accepted: 22 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 TIERRA-AREVALO, Pardo-Ferreira, Arezes and Rubio-Romero. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: JOSE MARCELO TIERRA-AREVALO, josetierra@uma.es
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