Identifying Causes of Building Construction Site Accidents in Tigray Region, Towards a Safe Construction Industry

Research study on

Identifying causes of building construction site accidents in Tigray region, towards a safe constructionindustry

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School of Civil Engineering

Ethiopian Institute of Technology-Mekelle

Mekelle University

Prime investigator

Tigest Tefera :( Eit-M, school of civil engineering, Mekelle University)

Co investigators

1. LieltiGebreegziabher:(Eit-M, school of civil engineering, mekelle university)
2. NolawitHailesilase:(Eit-M, school of civil engineering, mekelle university)
3. Netsanet Araya:(Eit-M, school of civil engineering, mekelle university)
   
   
   
   

August 2016

Acknowledgment

First of all our great thanks belongs to the almighty God that He made it possible to work through this journey. Each our working activities in construction sector facilitated by some great helper, which they show us positive respect and thankful attitude to our work.

We would like to acknowledge Mekelle University and Gender office for giving us this research work. Additionally, we want to give our appreciation for our chair member specially zeru Tariku, dejene and yakob tsehay for supporting, expressing their idea, and sharing their attitude towards this research work.

    I would like to thank all the staffs of civil engineering, especially unforgettable gratitude to Dc Bizuneh Assfaw, Dr Ahmed and Mebrhatom for generously sharing their wisdom and knowledge to us.

  Finally, special thanks to Dr Mulubrhan balehgn for his advice at research proposal and throughout the research work.

        Table of Contents        

Acknowledgment        

Abstract        

CHAPTR ONE        

1.        INTRODUCTION        

1.1 Background of the study        

1.2 Problem statement        

1.3General objective of the study        

1.4 Specific objective of the study        

1.5 scope and limitation of the study        

1.6 significance of the study        

1.7 Structure of the paper        

CHAPTER TWO        

2.        LITRATURE REVIEW        

2.1 construction site accident        

2.2 Occupational health and safety        

2 .3 Construction accident and  Safety in Ethiopian Context        

CHAPTER THREE        

3.        RESEARCH METHODOLOGY        

3.1 Study area and study period        

3.2 Survey design        

3.3 Variables        

3.4 Data Analysis Method        

CHAPTER FOUR        

4.   RESULT AND DISCUSSION        

4.1 Demographic characteristics of respondents        

4.1.1 Respondent’s classification based of type of company        

4.1.2 Respondent’s classification based on position        

4.1.3 General information        

4.2.  Descriptive statistics        

4.3 Sites Observation Results        

4.4 discussions on the results        

CHAPTER FIVE        

5. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION        

5.1 Conclusion        

5.2 Recommendation        

REFERENCES        

Appendix        

Abstract

Construction is one of the world’s biggest industries that include jobs as diverse as building, civil engineering, demolition, renovation, repair and maintenance. Construction workers are exposed to a wide variety of hazards. This study analyzes the cause of building construction accidents in tigray region.

Method;-Intuition based cross-sectional study was conducted from April  14-May 23,2016 at twenty licensed construction contractors and five consultant firms which sites are located in different cities of tigray region like:-Axum, Adigrat, Adwa, Adigudem, Maychew, Abi adi, Mekelle. A total of 34 building construction sites were included in this study by using simple random sampling technique. Data were collected through pretested questionnaire, interviews, standard observation and the data is analyzed using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) and excel.

Result:- :-the major construction accidents in tigray region were foot and hand injury (76%), falling (20%) and collapse (4%) and the leading cause of construction accidents werelack of knowledge in safety and health, poor working condition, working hour, working environment and material found to elevate the odds of having construction accident among construction workers.The rate of clearing wastage material has a standard deviation of 1.023.this shows us that the level of wastage removal in one site to another site has enormous difference.so it must be improved.Disposing wastagematerial from the site reduces the rate of injury in construction site.

Conclusion:-The study revealed  that construction accident were common among building construction works. Therefore, counter measures like creating awareness(provide training ) on construction site safety and health throughout the workers, make a strict follow up on using safety equipment, using strong scaffolding and formwork could be effective to decrease prevalence of construction accidents.

CHAPTR ONE

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the study

Construction is a high hazard industry that comprises a wide range of activities involving construction, alteration, and/or repair. The fact that a construction job or work environment is considered as highly risky and hazardous does not mean that its susceptibility to accident is not controllable – this largely depends on “work situation” which is humanly controllable. Safety records in the same construction industry in most advanced countries have proven this to be true. Little wonder Koehn, Ahmed, and Jayanti (2000), Idoro (2008) and Enhassi, Choudhry, Mayer &Shoman (2008) all express similar worry as to why worse safety conditions persist on construction work sites in most developing countries like Ethiopia Historically up to recently the duties of implementing safety were passed to the Contractor.  Legislation has changed this situation somewhat on paper but in our view the Clients and Designers have still left safety in the hands of the Contractor.