Risk perception on building construction safety

Abstract

Building construction safety is a crucial factor ad rem to the construction industry. There are several safety measures adopted in industry towards safety. But, safety II methods, which adopts safety precautions improved based on work as done at site often surpass safety I measures which is based on work as imagined, based on previous studies. This is further confirmed in the present study. Based on incident reports and questionnaire a detailed study on risk perception on building construction safety is done. A web tool, kobo tool box, an online survey platform maintained by Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) is used for data collection. Data is collected from industrial experts, on three different tiers. Data obtained is analysed to obtain risk perception among the different levels of organization in the industry. A comparison on risk perception and safety measures obtained after study and those available in literature is done. The study developed by two types of study, one is the online questionnaire and another was direct questionnaire and direct observation done on selected organizations. There was a total of 31 respondents for online survey and 5 organizations for direct survey. The 5 organizations selected included those with crisil rating D to DA2 + as on July 2021 and developer rating super large developer. A statistical test was conducted to study if there is statistically significant difference in the dependent across the levels independent variables considered.