Abstract

Sustainability in construction sector implementation depends to a wide range of level at national, regional, and local level. Also, it depends on the social and cultural aspect. Construction site safety is an essential aspect of sustainable construction. This paper proposes to identify the causes of accidents and building failure; to mitigate construction safety and building failure, and to describe the development and implementation of safety construction in order to improve safety culture according to the Law of Indonesia Republic No. 2/2017 of Construction Service and Decree of Minister of Public Works and Housing No. 21/PRT/M/2019 of Implementation Guideline of Construction Safety Management. Furthermore, the awareness of d from considering the underlying causes of accidents. This paper suggested, for the prevention of COVID-19 control and the accordance of construction safety; the optimization of digital services in coordination, supervision, control, and administrative governance is urgently needed. Moreover, the development of information technology and legal basis are required to achieve zero construction accidents and high quality infrastructure for both the service providers and users.

Highlights

  • Sustainable development has promote prosperity, economic opportunity and protection to environment

  • To fulfil the inquiry of safety construction included in K4 standard, it is necessary to consider the following aspect: (1) construction engineering safety requires compliance standard in planning, design, procedure, material quality, equipment feasibility standard, and the quality of the results of the implementation of construction services which include buildings and construction assets

  • The fulfilment of construction engineering safety is oriented to prevent construction accidents; (2) occupational health and safety (OHS) is the fulfilment of workforce safety and health, including labour service providers, sub-service providers, suppliers, and other parties permitted to be at the project site

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Summary

Introduction

Sustainable development has promote prosperity, economic opportunity and protection to environment. In responding to the construction accidents and building failures occurrence, the maturity level of the safety culture in Indonesia’s construction industry is still at a reactive level which indicated by (a) the system runs in case of a previous work problem or accident; (b) not solution-oriented; (c) off responsibility; (d) accident investigations only focus on the human error; (e) lack of detail analysis due to accident investigations; (f) poor conscious for the context of incident notice; (g) Inadequate to conduct regular job training; (h) the level of quality, health, safety and environment(QHSE) communication has been settled but still need to be improved; (i) poor regulation compliance; (j) the implementation level of hazard identification, risk assessment and control, and work hygiene and worker health is still in reactive level; (k) lack of consciousness in terms of the importance of personal protective equipment (PPE) as preventive tool; and (l) audit conduction occurs due to problem occurrence not as a regular stage to obtain qualified evaluation Another concern on infrastructure as stated in the Law of Indonesia Republic No 2/2017[14] of Construction Service is about building failure.

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