scholarly journals Methods of Improving Reporting of Occupational Accidents in the Nigerian Construction Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Kamoli Adetunji ◽  
Razali Adul Hamid ◽  
Syamsul Hendra Bin Mahmud
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Economic Management ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
Importance Index ◽  
Construction Organizations ◽  
Safety Awareness

Information concerning occupational accidents are far less accessible in developing nations, and where data do present, they are mostly undependable. The serious problem is under-reporting. Various types of occupational injuries information are sometimes not reported to the appropriate authorities by the construction organizations. Also, the regulatory authorities with the statutory obligation to ensure all occupational accidents are reported, perform below standard. The aim of the study therefore is to explore the method of improving the reporting of occupational accidents in the Nigerian construction industry. Literature review of under-reporting of occupational accidents was conducted, thereafter, a field survey with 300 structured questionnaires were distributed, to solicit information from the construction professionals in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja Nigeria. 235 questionnaires were returned, therefore considered for the analysis of the study. The relative importance index was used in the analysis of the data with SPSS software. The study found that an increase in health and safety awareness will enhance employees and organizations in the recording and reporting of occupational accidents. The study suggests that organizations and employees should keep with internal accidents recording systems whether or not legal obligations to report them are in place, the reasons being for humanitarian, economic, management and industrial relations.

scholarly journals BARRIERS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN THE NIGERIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (24) ◽  
pp. 90-99
Author(s):  
Adetunji Kamoli ◽  
Razali Adul Hamid ◽  
Syamsul Hendra Mahmud
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Safety Management Systems ◽  
Construction Organizations ◽  
The Government ◽  
Lack Of Commitment ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

OHSMS has become the main part of the establishment’s lifeline and a prerequisite for its stability in the 21st century. There is a growing need for OHSMS, in its ability to solve occupational accidents and also to develop a robust relationship among the stakeholders. The mission of OHSMS has not been followed in the Nigerian construction industry. The study, therefore, explores the barriers to the development of OHSMS in the Nigerian construction industry. The study adopted a literature review of OHSMS and thereafter, 300 structured questionnaires were administered to the construction professionals in the built environment of the Nigerian nation’s Capital-Abuja. 247 of the administered questionnaires were returned, considered for the analysis of the study. The data were analysed with SPSS and excel. The findings of the study indicate that the lack of commitment of the government, inefficient regulatory authorities, and lack of expertise in the OHS activities are the major barriers to the development of OHSMS. The study recommends collaborative efforts from the construction organizations, employees, and construction professionals to support the government on the OHSMS.

scholarly journals Impact of Alcohol on Occupational Health and Safety in the Construction Industry at Workplaces with Scaffoldings

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 6690
Author(s):  
Marek Sawicki ◽  
Mariusz Szóstak
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Alcohol Abuse ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Preventive Actions ◽  
Different Sources

The value, care, and customs of workers are essential in terms of occupational health and safety. The abuse of alcohol is widely regarded as a serious threat to the lives, health, and safety of employees. The aim of the research was to identify the main problems that are associated with alcohol abuse and consumption at work among employees in the construction industry, with particular emphasis on workstations where work is carried out on construction scaffoldings. Data for the analysis were obtained from two different sources. The first one was post-accident documentation on occupational accidents. The second one was surveys collected during the research project. This study confirmed that excessive and disproportionate alcohol consumption can be the cause of an accident, and consequently death at workplaces with scaffolding. Of 219 accident reports, 17.4% indicated alcohol as a contributing factor. Analysis of accident documentations shows that in cases where alcohol was indicated as a contributing factor in an accident, the alcohol was consumed during the workday. The results obtained on the basis of the conducted research were able to constitute a justification for the directions of preventive actions carried out in order to reduce the number of occupational accidents in the construction industry caused by alcohol.

scholarly journals A Safety Climate Framework for Improving Health and Safety in the Indonesian Construction Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (20) ◽  
pp. 7462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatma Lestari ◽  
Riza Yosia Sunindijo ◽  
Martin Loosemore ◽  
Yuni Kusminanti ◽  
Baiduri Widanarko
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Safety Communication ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Safety Research

The Indonesian construction industry is the second largest in Asia and accounts for over 30% of all occupational injuries in the country. Despite the size of the industry, there is a lack of safety research in this context. This research, therefore, aims to assess safety climate and develop a framework to improve safety in the Indonesian construction industry. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from 311 construction workers. The results show a moderately healthy safety climate but reflect numerous problems, particularly around perceived conflicts between production and safety logics, cost trade-offs being made against other competing project priorities, poor safety communication, poor working conditions, acceptance of poor safety as the norm, poor reporting and monitoring practices, poor training and a risky and unsupportive working environment which prevents workers from operating safely. Two new safety climate paradoxes are also revealed: contradictions between management communications and management practices; contradictions between worker concern for safety and their low sense of personal accountability and empowerment for acting to reduce these risks. A low locus of control over safety is also identified as a significant problem which is related to prevailing Indonesian cultural norms and poor safety policy implementation and potential conflicts between formal and informal safety norms, practices and procedures. Drawing on these findings, a new integrated framework of safety climate is presented to improve safety performance in the Indonesian construction industry.

scholarly journals An Overview of Construction Occupational Accidents in Hong Kong: A Recent Trend and Future Perspectives

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 2069 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Shafique ◽  
Muhammad Rafiq
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Incidence Rates ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
A Current

The construction industry is infamous for a high number of fatalities around the world. The Hong Kong construction industry is also one of the most hazardous industries for worker’s safety compared to all other industries. This paper presents a current trend of occupational injuries among Hong Kong construction workers. Yearly reports of the labour department of Hong Kong were evaluated in this study. A statistical analysis of incidence rates (IRs) and mortality rates (MRs) was performed to evaluate each accident type. Moreover, analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed to find out the relationship between IRs and MRs of individual accident type. From the analysis, “Slip, trip or fall on the same level” caused the higher number of occupational injuries while “fall of the person from height” caused the higher number of occupational fatalities from 2011 to 2017. Finally, the future perspectives of effective safety management system incorporated with advance technologies in the construction industry are highlighted in this study.

scholarly journals Using new digital technologies in employee training to avoid occupational accidents in the industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 343 ◽  
pp. 10024
Author(s):  
Petru Iulian Muresan ◽  
Ioan Milosan ◽  
Teodor Machedon-Pisu ◽  
Adrian Reit ◽  
Dorin Senchetru ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Employee Training ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
Workplace Accidents ◽  
The Times ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Activity Report

The most frequent workplace accidents in the industry are most of the times caused by the employer’s failure to fulfill their obligation to provide appropriate on-the-job training. Starting from this state of affairs, this paper analyzes the main cause of workplace accidents in the industry, which is the lack of training, or incomplete or inadequate training of employees, a situation indicated by the latest studies and the latest activity report of Labor Inspectorate. The solution identified by most employers was to use the online environment, this being the only way that allows the achievement of both of the aforementioned objectives at the same time. In this context, the paper identifies and proposes the use of the online environment, especially in the process of distance training of workers, giving them the opportunity to receive training documents, to analyze them, to electronically sign them and send them to the employer in electronic format. This proposal of supplementing the current legislation with the possibility of using the online environment in the field of occupational health and safety (OHS) also takes into account other categories of benefits that this solution brings, such as streamlining OHS and optimizing costs incurred in fulfilling these legal obligations.

scholarly journals İNŞAAT SEKTÖRÜNDEKİ İŞ SAĞLIĞI VE GÜVENLİĞİ FARKINDALIK ANALİZİ: İÇ ANADOLU VE MARMARA BÖLGESİ ÖRNEKLEMİ

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 159-173
Author(s):  
Melek Dikmen ◽  
Yusuf Doğan
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Company Sector ◽  
Production Areas ◽  
Day By Day

The construction industry is a business that affects many different production areas and contributes significantly to the economy of the country and the geography it is connected to. The sector grows day by day due to its increasing economic power and technological developments, but it also brings with it occupational accidents resulting in many injuries, disability and death. Occupational accidents; In addition to the disruption of the country's economy and sectoral production, it causes prestige and significant economic losses on company/sector basis. In this study, occupational accidents, occupational health and safety concepts not only focuses on the literature review containing advancement in the world and Turkey but also presents the evaluations of 320 students who are candidates of civil engineering and construction technician through face-to-face surveys to determine their knowledge, awareness and expectations in the field of occupational accidents through the SPSS program. This study emphasizes regulation, support and cooperation through the firm, industry, government and university to increase the level of readiness of the civil engineers and construction technicians, who are expected to have significant authority and responsibility in the construction industry, and to reduce the occupational accidents.

scholarly journals During COVID-19, which is more effective in work accident prevention behavior of healthcare professionals: Safety awareness or fatalism perception?

Work ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 783-790
Author(s):  
Özgün Ünal
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Accident Prevention ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Safety Awareness ◽  
Prevention Behavior ◽  
Work Accident ◽  
Work Accidents

BACKGROUND: As the pandemic process, COVID-19 has a serious occupational safety risk for healthcare professionals. Therefore, determining their health and safety perceptions and attitudes in the pandemic process is very important. This study aims to determine which is more effective in work accident prevention behavior: safety awareness and competencies of healthcare professionals or perception of fatalism. METHOD: For this purpose, a questionnaire was applied to 326 healthcare professionals. The questionnaire consists of four parts: (1) demographic information of the employees, (2) scale of preventing occupational accidents, (3) fatalism perception scale in occupational health and safety, and (4) security awareness and competency scale. Descriptive statistical methods, multiple regression and correlation analysis were used in the analysis of the data. RESULTS: It was determined that the participants’ safety awareness and competencies were at the high level and their fatalism perceptions were at the low level. The average of the responses given by the participants to the scale of preventing work accidents was above the middle level. According to the study, the safety awareness and competencies of health workers were found to be about three times more effective on the behavior of preventing work accidents than the perception of fatalism. CONCLUSION: In conclusion, it is important to recommend managers to take the step to increase the safety awareness and competencies of those working in their institutions.

Injury analysis of teachers’ occupational accidents

Work ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
María del Carmen-Rey Merchán ◽  
Antonio López-Arquillos
Keyword(s):  
Private School ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
The Body ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
Safety Strategies ◽  
Day Of The Week ◽  
Vulnerable Workers

BACKGROUND: Occupational accidents among teachers are a cause of concern because of their consequences regarding several parts of the body, such as the neck, back, or extremities; however, the number of studies on this issue is limited. OBJECTIVE: To analyze the possible effects of different variables (gender, age, nationality, experience, sector, day of the week, traffic accidents) associated with occupational injuries suffered by teachers. METHODS: All teachers’ accidents recorded in Spain (136,702) from 2003 to 2018 were analyzed. Odds ratios with a 95% confidence interval were calculated. RESULTS: For injured female workers, being younger than 45, in her first month of experience, in a public school, without risk assessment, and in a traffic accident are the most important factors related to suffering a neck injury. In the case of injured male workers, to be older than 45, in a private school, and no traffic accidents are the factors detected influence suffering an injury in lower extremities. CONCLUSIONS: Institutions and schools should pay special attention to the highest-risk profiles. Results obtained can be a very useful tool for the design and implementation of specific occupational health and safety strategies adapted to the more vulnerable workers in each kind of injury.

scholarly journals Occupational Health and Safety legislative compliance in the construction sites in Windhoek, Namibia

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Maano Nghitanwa ◽  
Lindiwe I Zungu
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Occupational Hazards ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Spss Software

Non compliances towards occupational health and safety legislations has been on increase globally which leads to higher incidence of occupational accidents, injuries and diseases. The aim of the study is to determine the presence of occupational hazards in the construction industry and to investigate the occupational health and safety provision and compliance among construction sites in Windhoek. A quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive design was used to conduct the study. Census sampling was used to include ten construction sites with project running during data collection time and whose site managers agreed to participate in the study. Data was collected in ten construction sites with the site inspection checklist to assess the occupational hazards and OHS compliance in participated construction sites. Data was analysed with SPSS software. The study findings indicated that occupational hazards are prevalent in the construction industry, but there is poor mechanism to control hazards and to prevent hazard exposures. Furthermore, most construction sites are non compliant towards OHS legislations. It is recommended that OHS legislations should be enforced to promote the OHS in the construction industry.

scholarly journals A Survey on the Criteria for Measuring the Profitability of a Construction Organization

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 2879-2881
Author(s):  
A. H. Memon ◽  
M. A. Soomro ◽  
N. A. Lakho ◽  
M. A. Bhutto ◽  
A. N. Memon
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Capital Structure ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Structural Capital ◽  
Importance Index ◽  
Construction Organizations ◽  
Construction Organization ◽  
Construction Works

Any organization’s performance depends on profitability which depends on several adopted criteria. The preference and level of adoption of these criteria varies, on different industries. This study focuses on investigating the criteria of profitability in the construction industry. This investigation involves a survey to seek the perception of the contractors involved in handling physical activities of construction works. The survey considered 63 questionnaire forms. Statistical analysis was performed to compute the frequency and the relative importance index. The results indicated that structural capital, lifetime values, capital structure and competitor actions are the top 4 criteria implemented in construction organizations to measure profitability.

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