Paper Title
Institutional Barriers to Effective OHS Management: A Study of the Hong Kong Construction Industry

Abstract
Drawing upon an institutional perspective, this study aims to identify the institutional barriers to occupational health and safety (OHS) management and to investigate the sources of the institutional barriers in the construction sector of Hong Kong. A qualitative research strategy was adopted. The results show that there exist five institutional barriers to site safety management. These are inconsistent regulatory demands, regulatory uncertainty and rigidity, redundant institutional demands, conflict between safety demands and production efficiency and disparate values and beliefs about safety and how to achieve safety. It is also found that these institutional barriers come out of three interwoven sources. These are multiple institutional demands of site safety, the specificity of institutional rules, and conflicts between organisational legitimacy and efficiency. This study contributes a framework of institutional barriers to OHS management and their relevant sources to the extant literature. Keywords - Complexity, Institutional Analysis, Occupational Health and Safety