Effectiveness of Safety Control and Implementation in Construction Project

• Main Author: Abd Aziz, Nur Zahirah
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2017
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/23101/1/i.%20DISSERTATION_NUR%20ZAHIRAH%20ABD%20AZIZ_19324.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/23101/

Construction industry is a booming sector of Malaysian economy, which enhanced the growth of socio-economic of country as well as providing the necessary infrastructure and enhanced facilities for social comfort. However, it is stigmatized as the most hazardous industries due to high occupational risks and unsatisfactory state of occupational safety. Therefore, this study evaluates the factors affecting the successful implementation of safety control practices in construction project through the application of structured questionnaire and case study of high rise construction project. The statistical techniques including Relative Importance Index (RII) and Average Index (AVI) are used to analyze the data gathered, while the statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) is used to measure the Spearman’s rank correlation between four different groups of respondents, the Cronbach’s alpha (reliability test) and validity of the study.