Identification Of Presence Of Safety Codes In On-Site Construction Project

Abstract

Construction industry is considered one of the most hazardous industries throughout the world due to its unique nature. Accidents and injuries can bring great losses to individuals, organization and society. Safety is most necessity part in construction industry. Proper maintenance of safety regulation cannot eradicate hazardous fully but it can be reduced. However, unawareness of safety is one of the major problems for accidents. Therefore, this paper is aim to identify the engineers knowledge towards safety code practice in India and implementation of safety codes in on- site construction projects. In spite of that, the critical factors are extracted through an extensive review of literatures and safety code of practice and books. Most of the literatures were concluded that the major accidents held due to scaffolds, ladders and excavation. Hence, this paper is focused on those areas to identify the lack of knowledge in engineers’ and faults in implementation on site. The structured questionnaire were developed and distributed, retrieved form engineers from various construction firms. The results shows engineers’ have knowledge on Scaffolding (83%) rather than Ladder (72%) and Excavation (58%). Finally the study gives the recommendation and suggestion to the firms, how to improve the knowledge on safety for their engineers’. Hence, this identification of factors can contribute to creating awareness or which may leads to the awareness about safety in future.