Appraisal of Management Understanding of Safety Management System at Construction Site.

Abstract

Safety management is associated with polices, objectives, procedures, methods roles and functions that aim at controlling hazard and risks in socio-technical system. The commitment of the management toward safety management system can manifest itself into job training program, management participation in safety committee, consideration of safety in job design and review of the pace of work. The aim of this study is to assess the level of understanding of safety management system among manager of safety and health in construction site. A structured questionnaire contain in the construction industry standard CIS 10:2008 were used to interview the management personnel at five different sites within Kuala Lumpur. The average scores of the five sites will justify the level of understanding with the aid of star ranking. The result reveals a good number of management personnel have knowledge and understood all the potential and significant issues contain in the OSH management system practice in their sites, but still there is need for improvement on the knowledge of safety management system. As such the study recommended that in order to improve on the existing knowledge of the management personnel, adequate training program should be incorporated in to the organizational action plan.