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Assessment of Construction Safety Awareness Housing Construction Project Condominium Construction Workers : The Case of Koye Feche III
Abstract The major purpose of this study was to assess construction safety awareness in Addis Ababa Housing Construction Project at Koye Feche III Condominium Construction Workers.More specifically, the objectives of the study gave emphasis to assess extents of safety awareness among construction workers; to examine frequently occurring injuries; and to identify the major causes of safety problem among housing construction workers at Koye Feche III project site. Even though tremendous efforts are taking to tackle the problems associated with construction workers safety and health in the country; particularly in Addis Ababa, many condominium construction activities are inherently exposed for health and safety risks at present. Consequently, survey research design was used to accomplish the objective of the study. Mainly a five point Liker scale questionnaire was distributed to two group of respondents that included engineers, foremen, carpenters, masons, bar benders, site supervisors and construction engineers in the construction contractors and consultants to collect the data on the construction safety awareness of workers. The data were collected through the questionnaire, were initially distributed to a total of 220 respondents. Among the distributed questionnaires, 94.09% had appropriately filled and returned. The analyses of the data were made using descriptive statistics, like frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviations and ranges. In addition, t-test and p-value was used to test the presences of significant differences between two groups of the respondents in responding items of the questionnaire. Accordingly, the findings of this study confirmed that, there is no safety inspector at all and no enforcing rules to push the contractors and consultants to keep the construction workers health and safety, noting has been done to enforce the contractors to provide the basic types of PPE like heal mate and safety shoe to the workers Above all, practically nothing has been done related to construction safety training in the last three years. In conclusion, out of the total participants' majority of the workers never heard about construction site safety before this study. The study also exposed that greater than half of the participant fail to agree that construction site accident could cause permanent disability that could be extended to death. So based on the responses from the above specific questions related to construction safety awareness and responses of other sequence of questions related to safety awareness such as their exposure to construction safety related information and their understanding of work place safety rules, there is low level of construction safety awareness among Addis Ababa housing construction project office construction workers. The study also found out that the most common injuries were foot and hand injury, followed by falling from height, and Collapse during excavation. Moreover, the highly rated causes of the injuries are lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), lack of safety awareness, and lack of enforcing rules at Addis Ababa housing construction project office construction site. From these it is possible to recommend that, unless an immediate action is taken on time, the mentioned accidents and their causes can strongly affect the life of construction workers and the development of the sector. So, it calls the action of Addis Ababa Housing construction project office and other stakeholders to take their parts in order to improve construction safety awareness among construction workers in the study area.
Assessment of Construction Safety Awareness Housing Construction Project Condominium Construction Workers : The Case of Koye Feche III
Abstract The major purpose of this study was to assess construction safety awareness in Addis Ababa Housing Construction Project at Koye Feche III Condominium Construction Workers.More specifically, the objectives of the study gave emphasis to assess extents of safety awareness among construction workers; to examine frequently occurring injuries; and to identify the major causes of safety problem among housing construction workers at Koye Feche III project site. Even though tremendous efforts are taking to tackle the problems associated with construction workers safety and health in the country; particularly in Addis Ababa, many condominium construction activities are inherently exposed for health and safety risks at present. Consequently, survey research design was used to accomplish the objective of the study. Mainly a five point Liker scale questionnaire was distributed to two group of respondents that included engineers, foremen, carpenters, masons, bar benders, site supervisors and construction engineers in the construction contractors and consultants to collect the data on the construction safety awareness of workers. The data were collected through the questionnaire, were initially distributed to a total of 220 respondents. Among the distributed questionnaires, 94.09% had appropriately filled and returned. The analyses of the data were made using descriptive statistics, like frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviations and ranges. In addition, t-test and p-value was used to test the presences of significant differences between two groups of the respondents in responding items of the questionnaire. Accordingly, the findings of this study confirmed that, there is no safety inspector at all and no enforcing rules to push the contractors and consultants to keep the construction workers health and safety, noting has been done to enforce the contractors to provide the basic types of PPE like heal mate and safety shoe to the workers Above all, practically nothing has been done related to construction safety training in the last three years. In conclusion, out of the total participants' majority of the workers never heard about construction site safety before this study. The study also exposed that greater than half of the participant fail to agree that construction site accident could cause permanent disability that could be extended to death. So based on the responses from the above specific questions related to construction safety awareness and responses of other sequence of questions related to safety awareness such as their exposure to construction safety related information and their understanding of work place safety rules, there is low level of construction safety awareness among Addis Ababa housing construction project office construction workers. The study also found out that the most common injuries were foot and hand injury, followed by falling from height, and Collapse during excavation. Moreover, the highly rated causes of the injuries are lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), lack of safety awareness, and lack of enforcing rules at Addis Ababa housing construction project office construction site. From these it is possible to recommend that, unless an immediate action is taken on time, the mentioned accidents and their causes can strongly affect the life of construction workers and the development of the sector. So, it calls the action of Addis Ababa Housing construction project office and other stakeholders to take their parts in order to improve construction safety awareness among construction workers in the study area.
Assessment of Construction Safety Awareness Housing Construction Project Condominium Construction Workers : The Case of Koye Feche III
MOHAMMED NASSER (Autor:in) / Girmay Kahssay (PhD) (Autor:in)
10.02.2018
doi:10.20372/nadre:1547549947.81
Hochschulschrift
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
DDC:
690
Assessment of Construction Safety Awareness Housing Construction Project
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