A Study On Causes Of Accident And Prevention In Malaysian Construction

The construction industry is a dynamic and innovative industry that delivers building and infrastructure for all aspects of commercial and domestic activity. This dynamic and innovative industry faced with safety challenges on a project-by-project and day-by-day basis. Hence, this research objective is to identify the causes of accident happened in construction sites and measures order to improve the safety performance. Eighty sets of closed-ended questionnaire were distributed to the relevant respondents such as site manager, site safety officer, contractor, project manager and others. The results from 30 completed questionnaires form a database for the descriptive and ranking analysis on causes and also prevention of accident. The finding of this study reveals that accidents are generally causes by unsafe act and unsafe condition besides others sub causes which are indirectly cause to the accidents happen. Accidents can be result from combination of contributing causes one or more than that. The main causes of the construction accidents are the human element, poor site management, failure to use personal protective equipments and unsafe equipment used in construction works.