Safety Management Practices Adopted In Building Construction Sites in Niger State, Nigeria.

Abstract

The study investigated the safety management practices adopted in building construction sites in Niger State, Nigeria. This study utilized survey research on a target population of 2162 respondents, comprising of 400 site managers and 1762 building workers in building sites in Niger State Multi stage cluster sampling technique was used to select the opinion of 63 sites managers and 150 construction workers in Niger State, making the total number of respondents to 213. The instrument for data collection was a five point scale questionnaire. Data collected for this study was analyzed using mean, standard deviation and z test statistics. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer all the research questions while the two null hypotheses were tested using z-test statistics at 0.05 level of significance. Cronbach Alpha formula was used to determine the reliability of the instrument which yielded 0.83. Findings from the study revealed that organizing of tools and machine, maintaining and regular servicing of machine among others are management practices adopted by site managers and construction workers in construction site while some of the challenges of safety management is failure to use protective clothing by construction workers. It was recommended that: Nigeria institute of builders (NIOB) should make efforts to enforce compliance with the best management practices in building construction site in Niger State. The NIOB should also train building construction workers on the strategies to overcome the challenges faced on construction site