A Systematic Review on Health Hazards, injuries, Accidents and Implementation of Risk reduction Strategies in Construction Industries

Abstract

In the construction site there can be various types of risks and hazards are involved in the operations, this operation includes disruption of work, escalation of time, delay in the work and increase in the estimated project amount. In many construction industries, employee safety is one of the major concerns of the employer once operating. In some countries, the injuries which happen in the workplace are higher when compared with other alternative industries. In construction site, there are lot of employees doing different works in the workplace using dangerous equipment’s which are hazardous to health and can cause injury to the worker in the workplace. The injuries are caused because of numerous unsafe acts and unsafe condition in the construction site. This paper has reviewed about the construction site Health Hazard injuries, Risk, and safety problems in the Construction site. The major cause of health hazards in the workplace is also discussed in this paper. The hazards that are reported before are mainly caused by workers falling from height and electric shock. Proper work safety awareness has to be created among the workers when they are exposed to hazardous substance in the workplace and to use proper PPE during the work. In addition to that, the poor safety practice that is followed in the construction sites and the minor and major injuries caused because of not following the proper safety practices while they are working. The major cause for all of these is because the worker doesn’t like to wear the right personal protective equipment that fits for the job he is doing, lack of knowledge about safety and overexertion. There is a need of conducting awareness program in the construction site as well as conducting on off-site awareness program for the workers will improve their knowledge and enhance active safety management so this can be applied or executed among the employees. Not only among the workers the awareness program should be conducted but also among the contractors who involved in the project, this awareness program should be conducted actively.