Browsing by Author "Seid, Mekonnen"

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    Assessing Occupational Health, Safety and Environment Management Practices and Challenges at the New Headquarter Building Construction Project of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2021-02-13) Seid, Mekonnen; Atara, Adane(PhD)
    The management of occupational health, safety and environment has become today an issue that is pertinent and crucial to all organizations across all industries especially for the construction industry. The safety and health of workers and society surrounding any project should not be taken as a luxury but rather a necessity. This case study therefore, aims to find out the current practices of occupational health, safety and environment management at the new headquarter building construction project of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) with a view to identify key challenges and problems in implementing and practicing an effective management of occupational health, safety and environment. In pursuing this objective, a descriptive research design was used and obtained the relevant primary data through online questionnaire survey and semi structured interview. The questionnaire survey data was analyzed using SPSS software and presented in frequency and percentages. Consequently, the study result revealed that, though management of occupational health, safety and environment is well practiced by the contractor, it is practiced unsatisfactorily in the project by the client and consultant organizations. Despite the overall project health, safety and environment management practice is not satisfactory, it is found that provision and utilization of key health, safety and environment practices that complies with occupational health, safety and environment requirement were performed in the project workplace. Lack of top management commitment is the major challenges to the implementation of occupational health, safety and environment management system in the given project. Further findings of this study show that among the factors to occupational health, safety and environment hazards in the given construction project, falling objects from working platforms, hoists and scaffolds have immense contribution to occupational health, safety and environment hazards.
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    Socio-Economic and Demographic Determinants of Antenatal and Delivery Care Utilization in Rural Kebeles of Kalu Wereda, Debub Wollo Zone, Amhara Region
    (Addis Ababa University, 2009-06) Seid, Mekonnen; Dejene, Michael (PhD)
    Each year a large number of women are dying due to factors associated with pregnancy and childbirth in developing countries. Antenatal and delivelY care are the most important interventions for reducing maternal and child mortality. A community based cross-sectional survey was conducted in Februwy 2009 with the main objective of assessing socio-economic alld demographic factors that determine antenatal and delivelY care utilization in rural kebeles of Kalu wereda, Debub Wollo Zone, Amhara Region. Simple random sampling technique was used to select representative kebeles and enumeration areas. A total of 312 women who were pregnant at the time of the surveyor had live births within the 3 years preceding the survey date were the respondents for the survey. Quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection were employed to gather the required infonnation ji-om the respondents. The result of the study revealed that 37.2% of the women received ANC either during the current pregnancy or at the time of their previous pregnancies and the majority of them (65.5%) made 2-3 ANC visits. About 40% of 1V0men visited health facilities for ANC check up ill the third trimester of their pregnancy. Concerning the latest births, (85.2%) of the babies were delivered at hOllle and about 37% and 25% of the deliveries were attended by untrained traditional birth attendants and relatives, respectively. The bivariate test shows that age, average monthly income, total children ever born, average time taken to reach the nearest health facility and education have statistically significant association with utilization of ANC with (X1=1 01 .7, P=O.OOO), (X2=23.7, P=O.OOO),( x'=53.4, P=O.OOO), (X2=21.1, P=O.OOO).( X'=50.9, P=O.OOO)). In addition, age, average monthly income, total number of children ever born, average time taken to reach the nearest health facility and education also shows statistically significant association with utilization of health facility delivelY with (x'=8.1, P=0.017), (x'=9.9, P=0.007), (x'=12.5, P=0.002), (x'=l/, P=O.OOI) and (X2=12.2, P=O.OOO), respectively. Moreover, the multivariate analysis revealed that age, average monthly income, awareness about benefit of ANC have significant relationship with utilization of ANC. Likewise, total number of children ever born, marital status and access to radio are found to have significant effect on utilization of health facility delivelY. Being in a state of good health was the main reason for not using ANC, while, it is usual practice is reported as the main reason for home delivelY. Promoting the use of ANC, postnatal care and facility-based and safe home based deliveries by providing information and education on maternal service utilization, encouraging women education and improving the status of women in the community are recolllmended.