In Gujarat, the growth of construction industry development is comparatively higher than any other industries. But
the safety level of construction industry is quite lower than any other industries. As the construction industry is
highly labor intensive, employees around 10 million people and the rate of workplace fatal accidents in construction
sector is four to five times than that of the manufacturing sector so the issue of safety assumes importance.
Construction project sites are often full with probable hazards that lead towards serious injury or death.
Occupational safety in the construction industry is very poor in developing countries. The main objective of this
study is to evaluate the safety performance level of construction projects. For this a comprehensive literature from
concerning various literatures was deployed to find the factors affecting on project performance. The founded
factors was categorized in eight categorized like self-protection, housekeeping, scaffolding, access to height,
organizational, first aid, fire protection and general category. Questionnaire survey was held in three cities of
Gujarat and total 197 questionnaire was distributed to various project stakeholders like developer, contractor and
project managers. Out of the total distributed questionnaire 153 questionnaire was useful. During the site visits it
was noticed that due to awareness, lack of safety training, lack of safety training, lack of safety promotion, and lack
of documented and organized safety management systems the performance level is very lower then developed
countries a project level. The outcome of questionnaire survey and site visits describes that most of projects
running between extremely unsafe to unsafe level.
[1]
David Stephan,et al.
Practical Statistics by Example Using Microsoft Excel and Minitab
,
2001
.
[2]
Daniel Fong,et al.
Factors affecting safety performance on construction sites
,
1999
.
[3]
David M. Levine,et al.
Practical Statistics by Example Using Microsoft Excel
,
1999
.
[4]
Khalied Hyari,et al.
Safety Management in the Jordanian Construction Industry
,
2010
.
[5]
Samuel Laryea,et al.
Health and safety on construction sites in Ghana
,
2010
.
[6]
Patrick X.W. Zou,et al.
Conceptualizing Safety Management in Construction Projects
,
2013
.
[7]
Jian-ping Wang,et al.
Analysis of Factors Affecting Safety Management in Construction Projects
,
2010,
2010 International Conference on Management and Service Science.
[8]
Syed M. Ahmed,et al.
Safety Management in Construction: Best Practices in Hong Kong
,
2008
.
[9]
K. Mouleeswaran.
Evaluation of Safety Performance Level ofConstruction Firms In And Around Erode Zone
,
2014
.
[10]
Edward J. Jaselskis,et al.
Comparison of Construction Safety Codes in United States and Honduras
,
1993
.
[11]
Jimmie Hinze,et al.
Owner's Role in Construction Safety
,
2006
.