Enhancing Total Construction Safety Culture in Indonesia's New Capital: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

The establishment of Indonesia's new capital, Ibu Kota Nusantara, was a massive project that created significant risks during the construction phase, such as construction accidents. In response, total construction safety culture was developed to make a belief and implement strategies for minimizing risks. This research aimed to recommend strategies based on a structural equation model of total construction safety culture to improve safety performance. Using structural equation modeling with a partial least square approach, strategies were categorized into two aspects, covering the macro impact of construction accidents (national scope) and the micro and meso impacts (company and project scope). The macro strategy recommended the creation concept of nomenclature and criteria within government regulations related to construction safety The suggestion for the government regualation would cover construction safety ecosystem in Indonesia. Meanwhile, the micro and meso strategies concept included practical steps such as technology transformation, tacit knowledge, and improved supervision methods. By transformationing technology in construction safety such as using movement sensor and Building Information Modeling, it will be helpfull for the contractors to monitor all of the manpower and create safer working enivronment. Additionally, they can be applied in other cases to minimize the risk of construction accidents.