Module Teaching Objectives
1. To develop awareness of the current local and global issues in the construction industry.
2. To explore the approaches to research.
3. To demonstrate a systematic and orderly mind to produce a viable academic research.
My topic: CONSTRUCTION SAFETY PERFORMANCE IN MAURITIUS
ABSTRACT:
The construction industry is
a dynamic and innovative industry that is faced with safety challenges on a
project by project and day to day basis.
A greater part of accidents would not have happened if there were
convenient and satisfactory safety measures.
The Mauritius Central Statistics Office reported that in 2010, 69% of
the fatal accidents occurred within the construction industry. Hence, the objectives of this study are to firstly,
assess the factors influencing safety performance and secondly, identify the
interventions to improve safety performance in the Mauritian Construction
Industry. A questionnaire survey was
conducted in Mauritius targeting the Grade A contractors registered with The
Ministry of Public Infrastructure, National Development Unit, Land Transport
and Shipping. The results suggested that the three
main factors affecting safety performance are: lack
of supervision, lack of safety training and level of technical skills. Additionally, the three main interventions to
improve safety performance are Site Environment, Top Management Commitment and
Presence of Safety Representative.
CONSTRUCTION SAFETY MANAGEMENT
Construction
Safety Management is a technique for monitoring safety arrangements, systems
and action on development areas (Wilson and Koehn, 2000). It is an elemental procedure involving little
or substantial conformities made to site operatives to accomplish aims without
experiencing unforeseen “shocks” to normal business (Cheng et al, 2004). Moreover,
safety ought to be implemented as an administrative idea into each level of an
organisation and all aspects of a cross-hierarchical project.
While
regarding construction safety management, safety culture and safety climate are
prone to be two imperative perspectives (Flin et al, 2000). Safety culture
is prior to an extensive body of exploration into authoritative society. On the other hand, climate culture
exemplifies values, convictions and basic presumptions. It is an elucidating measure that records the
workforce's opinion of the hierarchical environment (Gonzalez-Roma et al, 1999).
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Number
and rate of fatal injury to workers, 1994/95 – 2013/14 (HSE, 2014)
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SITE ENVIRONMENT
Site environment has been identified as the main intervention in improving safety performance. Below are some pictorial illustrations of site environment safety.
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