ASSESSMENT OF SAFETY AND HEALTH MEASURES (SHASSIC METHOD) IN CONSTRUCTION SITES
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| Title | ASSESSMENT OF SAFETY AND HEALTH MEASURES (SHASSIC METHOD) IN CONSTRUCTION SITES |
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| Abstract | Construction employment statistic complied by construction industry development board reveal that construction workers constitute about 7.1% of the total workforce in Malaysia and generally accounted for 11% of all industries workers fatalities. As at 2010 occupational accidents in Malaysia includes 66 death, 4 cases of permanent disability and 50 cases of non permanent disability.OSHA’94 clearly define that the management of safety and health at workplace is the responsibility of those who create the risk and those who work with the risk, under this act it is the duty of the employer to maintain a accident free construction site. As such there is need to examine the performance of health and safety measures of contractors at sites. In order to examine the safety performance, a safety and health assessment system in construction industry is used so as to have a platform of assessing/evaluating contractor’s safety and health measures at site. Five different sites were considered for this study, and an average score of 60.35% was obtained from the sites. Therefore, it was concluded that most sites happen to managed and document their potential and significant high risks/hazard, but still there are few medium risks activities that were neglected. To deal with it, effectively a culture of safety and commitment from the top management are essential to achieve a high safety performance |
| Publisher | Advances in Computational Mathematics and its Applications |
| Date | 2012-05-22 |
| Source | 2167-6356 |
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