EVALUATION OF THE SAFETY PERFORMANCE LEVEL OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN GUJARAT

CONSTRUCTION

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.

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