Identification of Barriers to Health and Safety Knowledge Transfer from the Construction Industry to the Community

Knowledge transfer between organizations and communities of operation has been identified as a means for organizations to innovate. However, the transfer process comes with numerous challenges. Hence, this paper aims to identify challenges that would militate against the transfer of knowledge from construction organizations to the communities of their operation. In a cross-sectional survey, 250 contractors, comprising 155 building and 95 road contractors, responded to questionnaires explicitly developed for this study. Stratified simple random sampling was the sampling technique used. The findings of the study revealed that lack of trust, cultural restrictions, time constraints, and type of neighbourhood are the barriers to knowledge transfer from construction companies to the communities. The findings of this study contribute to knowledge as they establish barriers to knowledge transfer between a construction organization and a community so that policymakers can find ways to overcome them. The findings also contribute to knowledge management literature by establishing barriers to knowledge transfer from a construction organization to a community, the first of its kind in Ghana.