Critical success factors for safety program implementation among construction companies in Malaysia

The construction industry is characterized with a poor safety culture. It is well known that construction projects have many work related accidents and injuries. Safety program is a means to improve safety performance in construction project in Malaysia. Sixteen critical success factors of safety pr...

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Main Author: Taib, Adaweiah
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/60055/1/AdaweiahTaibMFKA2016.pdf
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spelling my-utm-ep.600552020-11-15T09:58:06Z Critical success factors for safety program implementation among construction companies in Malaysia 2016-01 Taib, Adaweiah TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) The construction industry is characterized with a poor safety culture. It is well known that construction projects have many work related accidents and injuries. Safety program is a means to improve safety performance in construction project in Malaysia. Sixteen critical success factors of safety programs were identified from safety literature, and these were validated by safety experts. This study was undertaken by distribute the questionnaire to 33 respondents from small, medium and large scale of construction projects. It explores the influence level of CSFs of safety program and actual status of compliance in construction companies. The main aim of this project is to study safety program implementation by determine the critical success factors (CSFs) that influenced the safety program in order to recommend strategies to enhance construction safety in improving safety program. The objectives of the study are to study safety program implementation and its effectiveness by construction companies, identify critical success factors that influenced the safety program implemented by construction companies to reduce rate of accident and fatality and recommend strategy to enhance construction safety in implement the safety program. the results shows that the implementation of safety program not achieved the required effectiveness and the there is a gap between the influence and actual compliance status of safety program CSFs. The study was carried out within Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Johor States; it was basically focused on the respondents who involve in construction safety. 2016-01 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/60055/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/60055/1/AdaweiahTaibMFKA2016.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:93831 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering Faculty of Civil Engineering
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
collection UTM Institutional Repository
language English
topic TA Engineering (General)
Civil engineering (General)
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General)
Civil engineering (General)
Taib, Adaweiah
Critical success factors for safety program implementation among construction companies in Malaysia
description The construction industry is characterized with a poor safety culture. It is well known that construction projects have many work related accidents and injuries. Safety program is a means to improve safety performance in construction project in Malaysia. Sixteen critical success factors of safety programs were identified from safety literature, and these were validated by safety experts. This study was undertaken by distribute the questionnaire to 33 respondents from small, medium and large scale of construction projects. It explores the influence level of CSFs of safety program and actual status of compliance in construction companies. The main aim of this project is to study safety program implementation by determine the critical success factors (CSFs) that influenced the safety program in order to recommend strategies to enhance construction safety in improving safety program. The objectives of the study are to study safety program implementation and its effectiveness by construction companies, identify critical success factors that influenced the safety program implemented by construction companies to reduce rate of accident and fatality and recommend strategy to enhance construction safety in implement the safety program. the results shows that the implementation of safety program not achieved the required effectiveness and the there is a gap between the influence and actual compliance status of safety program CSFs. The study was carried out within Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Johor States; it was basically focused on the respondents who involve in construction safety.
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author Taib, Adaweiah
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title Critical success factors for safety program implementation among construction companies in Malaysia
title_short Critical success factors for safety program implementation among construction companies in Malaysia
title_full Critical success factors for safety program implementation among construction companies in Malaysia
title_fullStr Critical success factors for safety program implementation among construction companies in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Critical success factors for safety program implementation among construction companies in Malaysia
title_sort critical success factors for safety program implementation among construction companies in malaysia
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering
granting_department Faculty of Civil Engineering
publishDate 2016
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/60055/1/AdaweiahTaibMFKA2016.pdf
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