Multimedia Educational Programs for Improvement of Occupational Safety Awareness in Construction Industry

Abstract

One of the most effective ways to improve health and safety conditions in construction sites rests in sound education and training of people incorporated in construction planning, managing or executing. In our region, the creative approaches are essential to encourage new methods to teach health and safety in a stimulating way. In the paper are presented two multimedia educational programs, both centred on development of construction safety awareness through unconventional teaching techniques. The first one is addressed particularly to designers or future designers and is focused on implementation of well known concept of “Prevention through design (PtD)”. The second educational program was prepared and realized within practitioners from construction companies participating in construction projects execution as project managers, site managers or workers. The last part of the paper deals with the effectiveness of safety education in Civil Engineering students.