Relationship between significant construction safety parameters and on site safety performance of high rise building in Karachi, Sindh Province, Pakistan
Pakistan is a developing country that is currently enjoying relatively substantial growth in construction activities. Unfortunately, Pakistan’s construction industry suffers from poor occupational safety and health (OSH) conditions. The framework of the existing OSH conditions is fragmented and i...
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2021
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| Summary: | Pakistan is a developing country that is currently enjoying relatively substantial growth
in construction activities. Unfortunately, Pakistan’s construction industry suffers from
poor occupational safety and health (OSH) conditions. The framework of the existing
OSH conditions is fragmented and inadequately enforced, making construction sites
more hazardous. Therefore, it is essential to improve OSH conditions in order to
improve safety performance in building construction. Thus, this research aims to find
those significant safety parameters which can significantly enhance the onsite safety
performance of high-rise building construction. Based on an extensive literature
review, sixty (60) safety parameters for enhancing onsite safety performance have
been identified and classified into fourteen (14) groups. In addition, this study also
adopted a quantitative approach, whereby a questionnaire survey was carried out on
two hundred and ten (210) respondents working in high-rise construction projects in
Karachi city of Sindh Province, in order to determine the most significant safety
parameters out of all the identified safety parameters. Initially, data analysis using
SPSS version 26 found that 38 out of 60 safety parameters were the most significant
safety parameters for enhancing onsite safety performance. Furthermore, the results
from principal component factor analysis provided evidence for the eight (08) groups,
consisting of 56 significant safety parameters accounting for 74.686% of the shared
variance. Finally, correlation analysis results revealed that the 08 groups comprising
56 significant safety parameters exhibit small and medium (range from rs=0.247 to
rs=0.334) correlation with onsite safety performance of high-rise building
construction. This empirical analysis has provided a new framework of significant
safety parameters for enhancing onsite safety performance of high-rise building
construction. Therefore, focusing on these safety parameters would improve the
employees’ safety, which will then enhance the overall safety performance on highrise
construction projects. It is hoped that this research can positively benefit the Pakistani construction industry in enhancing the onsite safety performance of highrise
buildings
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