Causes and impacts of site accidents in the Egyptian construction industry

Elsebaei, Mostafa; Elnawawy, Omar; Othman, Ayman Ahmed Ezzat; Badawy, Mohamed

doi:10.1080/15623599.2020.1819523

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“…Furthermore, a Spearman correlation test using SPSS was conducted on identified causes. The outcomes showed that many of these causes are interrelated and influenced each other [10].…”

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Ranking the critical causes of accidents in construction projects of Sindh: Perspective of safety professionals

Memon

Abas

Sohu

2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Construction projects are running very rapidly throughout the world and undergoing many challenges like delay, quality standards, cost overruns, and accidents. Accidents at workplace have been a very common issue nowadays particularly in construction projects. The objective of this paper is to identify and rank the critical causes of accidents in building construction projects. The area of work is in the province of Sindh in Pakistan. For this study, the quantitative research methodology was used, and a questionnaire survey was conducted among safety professionals working on construction projects in Sindh. The average index method was used to analyse the data collected from the questionnaire survey. This study has determined a total of seven main causes of accidents in building construction projects, such as no edge protection; no availability or poor quality of personal protective equipment; violations of safety rules and regulations; carelessness or negligence; extensive subcontracting and outsourcing; malfunctioning or collapsing equipment or machinery, and a compressed work program. This research highlighted the critical causes of accidents in building construction projects and assisted the stakeholders of the construction industry in narrowing down some of the critical causes. Moreover, the results of this study motivate construction stakeholders to concentrate on the problems of accidents in building projects in Sindh.

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“…Furthermore, a Spearman correlation test using SPSS was conducted on identified causes. The outcomes showed that many of these causes are interrelated and influenced each other [10].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ranking the critical causes of accidents in construction projects of Sindh: Perspective of safety professionals

Memon

Abas

Sohu

2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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“…Likewise, Abulhakim and Adeleke [89] used the partial least square structural equation modeling technique to investigate the safety factors but were unable to explain the mitigation steps to address the safety factors in high-rise buildings. A recent study by Elsebaei et al [90] examined the causes and influences of site accidents by highlighting factors but did not suggest effective solutions. However, the ability to handle a reliable initiative depends on transformative technologies, such as BIM.…”

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A Research Framework of Mitigating Construction Accidents in High-Rise Building Projects via Integrating Building Information Modeling with Emerging Digital Technologies

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The construction of high-rise building projects is a dangerous vocation due to the uniqueness and nature of the activities, as well as the complexity of the working environment, yet safety issues remain crucial in the construction industry. Digital technologies, such as building information modeling (BIM), have been identified as valuable tools for increasing construction productivity, efficiency, and safety. This research aimed to mitigate the accident safety factors in high-rise building projects via integrating BIM with emerging digital technologies in the construction industry, such as photogrammetry, GPS, RFID, augmented reality, (AR), virtual reality (VR), and drone technology. Qualitative research was conceived in the ground theory approach. Forty-five online interviews with construction stakeholders and qualitative data analysis were carried out using the NVivo 11 software package. According to the findings, interviewees were more motivated to use photogrammetry and drone technologies in high-rise building projects in order to increase construction safety. Positive, negative, and neutral attitudes about BIM integration with emerging digital technologies were discovered. Furthermore, a research framework was developed by consolidating research findings that articulate the measures and future needs of BIM integration with other digital technologies to mitigate construction accidents in high-rise building projects. The framework also renders practical references for industry practitioners towards effective and safer construction.

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“…To this point, numerous authors have asserted that profitability rests solely on the shoulders of the productivity of this labor [32][33][34]. Unskilled labor is one of the major causes of construction defects in the building sector and site accidents [35,36]. Associated with this has been poor productivity that can lead to construction delays and cost overruns [30,33,34,[37][38][39][40].…”

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Understanding the Hiring Issues of the Craft Workers in the UAE’s Construction Labor Market: Project Managers Perspective

2021

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The construction industry in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is faced with negative project performance, including low productivity, higher costs, delays in project completion, and defects during construction. One of the main reasons for these issues is the engagement of unskilled craft workers. Despite these labor issues, demand for construction projects in the UAE has been explosively increasing, in part due to Dubai winning the hosting of Expo 2020, which has given rise to an unprecedented demand for skilled construction craft workers. This study aimed to investigate the views and experiences of construction project managers regarding the reasons and challenges associated with the hiring of skilled craft workers in the construction labor market of the UAE. To fulfill the study purpose, the authors conducted structured open-ended interviews with UAE construction project managers. The results revealed several reasons for hiring craft workers despite a clear lack of qualifications and suggest some potential solutions.

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Causes and impacts of site accidents in the Egyptian construction industry

Cited by 13 publications

References 31 publications

Ranking the critical causes of accidents in construction projects of Sindh: Perspective of safety professionals

Ranking the critical causes of accidents in construction projects of Sindh: Perspective of safety professionals

A Research Framework of Mitigating Construction Accidents in High-Rise Building Projects via Integrating Building Information Modeling with Emerging Digital Technologies

Understanding the Hiring Issues of the Craft Workers in the UAE’s Construction Labor Market: Project Managers Perspective

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