Overview of Safety Risk Perception in Construction

Abstract

Construction industry is a generally risky business; it remains one of the most dirty, difficult and dangerous with poor working conditions. Despite recent efforts to improve site safety, it still accounts for a disproportionate number of occupational-related fatalities what is supported by statistics. According to the International Labour Organization, it accounts for 30-40% of the world's fatal injuries. In The European Union around thirteen employees out of every one hundred thousands are killed each year. Hence, construction site safety is a matter of global concern. However it is not easy to describe and define how to deport safely at some actual site because the workers are exposed to many safety risks varying in connection with conditions of the construction realization and with technologies using. The paper provides a brief knowledge from the study comparing the construction safety in Europe and North America referencing to presented statistics. There are also analyzed, described and systemized the principal groups of construction safety risks; described the interdependencies among safety risks, affecting by spatial, technological and time parameters of the building process, as well as by the site conditions.

Occupational Health and Safety Risk Levels of Building Construction Trades in Nigeria

“…Nevertheless, health and safety risk assessment on construction sites, is an important measure towards reduction of hazards and injuries (Kozlovská and Struková, 2012). Since managing health and safety is different from managing any other aspect in construction there is need for a trade-based risk assessment to determine the health and safety risks inherent in building construction trades in Nigeria based on their susceptibility to construction safety risk factors, and to put sensible measures in place to control them, and make sure they stay controlled.…”

“…Alizadeh, Mortazavi and Sepehri (2015) acknowledged that in construction, workers perform a great diversity of activities, each one with a specific associated risk. Zavadskas, Turskis and Tamošaitiene (2010), Kozlovská and Struková (2012) and Muiruri and Mulinge (2014) also agreed that many construction activities inherently possess high health and safety risk factors. According to de los Pinos, et al (2017), the high accident rate in the construction sector is due to a series of factors that do not occur in other sectors.…”

“…According to de los Pinos, et al (2017), the high accident rate in the construction sector is due to a series of factors that do not occur in other sectors. However, the most recognised health and safety hazards on construction sites have been working at height, working underground, working in confined spaces and proximity to falling materials, handling load manually, handling hazardous substances, noises, dusts, using plant and equipment, fire, exposure to live cables, poor housekeeping and ergonomics (Kozlovská and Struková, 2012;Muiruri and Mulinge, 2014;Vitharana, De Silva and De Silva, 2015).…”

“…But while Hola (2010) and Kozlovská and Struková (2012) acknowledge that construction sites undergo changes in work process, topography, topology and working conditions (including weather conditions) throughout the project duration, Mhetre, Konnur and Landage (2016) observed that the construction industry is highly risk prone, with complex and dynamic project environments which create an atmosphere of high uncertainty and risk. To this end, Mhetre, Konnur and Landage (2016) maintained that the construction industry is vulnerable to various technical, socio-political and business risks; as well as physical, chemical, mechanical and social hazards (Mohamed, 2017).…”

Analysis of Correlations between the Level of Partnering Relations and their Influence on the Time, Cost, Quality and Safety of Implementation of Construction Projects

“…To maintain partnering relations at the highest possible level and control them, it was necessary to create a system for assessment of partnering relations in construction projects. In recent years, a number of works on this subject have been published [14,15,16,17]. Bayliss et al present in [14] an example of a method for assessing partnering limited to questionnaire-based evaluation of thirteen measures of partnering by the project participants.…”