Evaluation of Health and Safety Program and Activities at Construction sites

Abstract

It has been observed that accident were likely to happen when there were inadequate company policy, unsafe practice, poor management commitment and insufficient training of workers. Many accidents have been traced to those factors. An effective safety program can substantially reduce accidents because it can help management to build up safer means of operations and create safe working environment. The Objective of the study is to determine the level of compliance of the establishment of safety and health program and activities at construction sites. As it involves checking of occupational safety and health related document as contain in the construction industry standard CIS 10:2008 in the five selected sites. An average result of 59.29% compliances among the sites consider for the study were obtained, that safety program and activities document at construction sites are averagely documented and managed and that a few medium program and activities at the workplace are being neglected. It was recommended that safety program need to be more formal by providing an effective OSH responsibility, and communicated to all levels including appointing a competent and responsible person to manage OSH record and document at site.