THE FRAMEWORK FOR EFFECTIVE SAFETY CONTROL AND IMPLEMENTATION AT CONSTRUCTION PROJECT

Idris Othman,Hisham Mohamad,Zain Hashim,Madzlan Napiah,Zuansi Cai

doi:10.29121/ijetmr.v5.i12.2018.326

Abstract

The Construction industry enhanced the growth of socio-economic of country as well as providing the necessary infrastructure and enhanced facilities for social comfort. However, it is stigmatized as the most hazardous industries due to high occupational risks and unsatisfactory state of occupational safety. Therefore, this study evaluates the factors affecting the successful implementation of safety control practices in construction project through structured questionnaire and case study of high rise construction project. The statistical techniques including Relative Importance Index (RII) and Average Index (AVI) are used to analyse the data gathered, while the statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) is used to measure the Spearman’s rank correlation between four different groups of respondents, the Cronbach’s alpha (reliability test) and validity of the study. The high impact factors identified are then validated with the case study on contractors’ practitioners’ practices. Based on the highest impact factors identified, a framework of safety control management was proposed to improve the safety performance at construction project. The study concludes with the conclusion on the data obtained and recommendation for the improvement, thus more valid and reliable results can be obtained for the implementation of safety control practices in construction project.

Highlights

Nowadays, the construction sector is a very important and productive sector of the Malaysian economy
The objectives of this research are explained as below: 1) To identify and rank the factors affecting the implementation of safety control towards resources during the construction phases which contribute largely to the safety performance and success of overall project based on relative importance index (RII) with correlation between construction practitioners
This research is to identify, rank and analyse factors influencing the implementation of safety control towards resources based on the actual case studies of a high-rise building construction project

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Introduction

The construction sector is a very important and productive sector of the Malaysian economy. Malaysia has realized the vital role of the construction sector which is contributed on economic growth and to enhance the quality of life and living standards of citizen. Construction industry is an important industry that plays a vital role in the socioeconomic growth of a country. It contributes in significant improvement in the overall GDP of a country. The industry has been consistently contributed approximately 3% to 5% of the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (Shari, 2000, Takim, 2005).There are increment in growth of construction which is from 6% to 15% since the seventies until middle nineties (Raftery et al, 1998, Shari, 2000). There many rapid execution of projects due to more advanced, Http://www.ijetmr.com©International Journal of Engineering Technologies and Management Research [28]

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