Citation

Alnunu MZ, Maliha MR. J. Civil Environ. Eng. 2015; 5(1): e167.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, OMICS Publishing Group)

DOI

10.4172/2165-784X.1000167

PMID

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Abstract

The construction industry is one of the most dangerous industries due to its unique nature. A number of researches studied the safety aspect and showed a high number of injuries and deaths at project sites. This research objective is that the sources of dangers at project sites including falling from height and knowing the methods and the worthiness of personal protection to minimize such incidents as well as improve the safety methods used. To gather information, the study used a questioner that was distributed to 70 Construction Company.The study concluded that the most targeted class exposed to fall accident in the site were the workers. Most of the results fall from height was death or injury and the Safety Awareness responsibility is the safety engineer. The most dangerous element of projects was the scaffolding and Factors related to Human and Psychological Climate. Such incidents the effect of fall accidents is project cost increase. The research recommend providing a safe environment and implementing a safety guideline with a presence of a safety engineer at project site.

Language: en