Safety Personnel’s Perceptions on the Significant Factors that Affect Construction Projects Safety Performance

Abstract

The Malaysian construction industry has been long categorized as one of the riskiest industries due to the high number of accidents that happened at construction sites. The poor safety performance in the construction industry has caused several drawbacks and failures in the aspects of project performance, cost, project completion time, and productivity. One of the reasons that led to this situation is due to the inadequate awareness of the project safety performance factors. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the significant factors affecting the safety performance of construction projects, based on the perceptions of safety personnel. Fifty-six (56) questionnaires were distributed among construction safety personnel who are working at construction sites in Kuala Lumpur through email and face-to-face methods. The percentage of the returned questionnaire was 100%. The questionnaire was analyzed using the Average Index (AI) analysis to attain the significant factors that affect the safety performance of construction projects. The findings revealed that among significant factors that affect safety performance on the construction project through project level and organization level were safety training, safety rules and safety induction, and performance monitoring. The outcomes of the study could assist relevant parties especially contractors to avoid accidents occur and have a systematic improvement on safety performance indicators at the construction project.

Investigating the impact of emerging technologies on construction safety performance

“…For an effective audit program, managers should be provided with a built-in quality control and monitoring function (Labour Department, 2002). There is strong evidence provided by previous studies implying that safety monitoring is strongly related to safety performance (Abas et al, 2021;Chellappa et al, 2019;Khalid et al, 2021; ECAM 31,3 Moosa and Oriet, 2022). According to most studies, improving safety inspection and monitoring makes safety technologies more effective and promotes their use (Chellappa et al, 2019;Guo et al, 2017Guo et al, , 2021Okpala et al, 2021;Yap et al, 2021).…”

“…One of the most prominent variables affecting safety performance is listed as safety leadership (Khalid et al, 2021;Moosa and Oriet, 2022;Skeepers and Mbohwa, 2015). In addition, safety training was mentioned as another important variable in safety performance (Abas et al, 2021;Chellappa et al, 2019;Moosa and Oriet, 2022;Shaikh et al, 2020;Skeepers and Mbohwa, 2015). Safety planning was another most cited parameter in safety performance (Chellappa et al, 2019;Khalid et al, 2021).…”

“…Safety planning was another most cited parameter in safety performance (Chellappa et al, 2019;Khalid et al, 2021). Safety inspection and monitoring (Abas et al, 2021;Chellappa et al, 2019;Khalid et al, 2021;Moosa and Oriet, 2022) and safety auditing and review (Moosa and Oriet, 2022;Shaikh et al, 2020) are also directly related to safety performance.…”

“…Safety training consists of activities such as arranging meetings for site safety, training workers on the use of safety equipment at regular intervals and following safety regulations (Demirkesen and Arditi, 2015). Previous studies provided solid evidence for the fact that safety training is directly related to safety performance (Abas et al, 2021;Chellappa et al, 2019;Moosa and Oriet,2022;Shaikh et al, 2020). Moreover, a considerable portion of studies revealed that using safety technologies in safety training increases safety performance (Bhoir and Esmaeili, 2015;B€ ukr€ u et al, 2022;Chellappa et al, 2019;Guo et al, 2017;Kim et al, 2019;Le et al, 2015a, b;Olayiwola et al, 2020;Park and Kim, 2013;Placencio-Hidalgo et al, 2022;Wang and Dunston, 2007).…”

“…, 2021; Moosa and Oriet, 2022; Skeepers and Mbohwa, 2015). In addition, safety training was mentioned as another important variable in safety performance (Abas et al. , 2021; Chellappa et al.…”