Research Article Proactive Approach to Measure Safety Management on Building Projects in Saudi Arabia Rafiq M. Choudhry , Idrees Zafar, and Mansour Saleh Almatawa Civil Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh 11564, Saudi Arabia Correspondence should be addressed to Rafiq M. Choudhry; rchoudhry@imamu.edu.sa Received 27 March 2023; Revised 13 September 2023; Accepted 19 September 2023; Published 26 October 2023 Academic Editor: Hexu Liu Copyright © 2023 Rafiq M. Choudhry et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Safety management is important throughout the world specifically on building projects, which are prone to accidents due to their unique operations, dynamic and ever-changing nature. In every country, contractors implement safety management systems (SMSs) to avoid accidents and comply with applicable laws, regulations and to provide safe work environments for their workers. Nonetheless, accidents still happen on many building projects in the country. The objective of this work is to measure safety management as perceived on building projects by employing a proactive approach in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to improve site safety. A survey instrument is utilized to gather data from building projects. Another questionnaire is used to conduct interviews with the key managers on the same projects. Analysis of the questionnaire survey is performed after entering the data into SPSS software by applying factor analysis and multiple linear regression. Factor analysis extracted two significant factors, including “management commitment, employee involvement, and safety training”—factor 1, and “project safety plan, safety committee, and safe use of equipment”—factor 2, which proactively measure the implementation of safety management on the building projects. The safety model obtained by multiple regression analysis identifies two significant contributors to the performance of the SMS. Analysis of the interviews complemented and validated the results of the questionnaire survey. The findings provide in-depth understanding of proactively measuring safety management on building projects for the construction industry practitioners to make project sites safer. 1. Introduction Safety management is very crucial to the safety of stake- holders, whether they are workers, owners, consultants, con- tractors, or subcontractors [1, 2]. Numerous construction firms all over the world are applying safety and health man- agement systems to decrease injuries, eradicate illness, and to support a safe job environment in their projects [1]. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reports that 5,333 laborers died from job-related injuries in 2019 that amounts to 3.5 fatalities per 100,000 full-time workers, nearly 15 fatalities a day [3]. Almost 20% (1,061) of laborer casualties in private industry happened in the construction industry [3]. Nonetheless, construction is among the most dangerous industries due to its outdoor operations, which accounts for 1 in every 5 occupational fatalities [4–7]. This has not changed to the present time as the building projects are still one of the most dangerous work- places [8–10] and Saudi Arabia is not different from rest of the world in project safety related accidents. Regardless of improvements in construction safety throughout the years, the accident rate remains the highest in the building sector of Saudi Arabia [11]. In the country, the total numbers of reported work accidents in 2014 were 69,241, and the con- struction industry accounted for 51.35% of these accidents [8]. World Bank development indicators revealed that the total laborers in Saudi Arabia were 16,137,535 in 2021 [12]. According to the General Authority of Statistics, the total number of construction workers employed in Saudi Arabia are 1.07 million in 2017. Saudis are accounted for 145,000, or 14% of the total and foreign workers are over 924,000 workers in the construction [13]. According to General Authority of Hindawi Advances in Civil Engineering Volume 2023, Article ID 6306157, 17 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/6306157