Assessing Electrical Works Occupational Safety Management Practice: The Case of Selected Building Projects in Addis Ababa
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2022-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Introduction: Electricity is essential to modern life of human beings in many aspects such as for health care at hospitals and clinics, construction places, transports, and communications, households, commercial, offices, spaces, mining areas and others. Despite its importance unsafe use electricity results injuries and fatalities. Those who are involved in electrical job they should
be alert for each and every second. Mistakes or failure will not have any excuses. However, most of the studies were indicate that accidents occurred due to electricity is considered as one of the
factors among several. And as any mistake has no excuse on electrical works, limited availability of the studies, unsafe working with electricity is construction sites and the magnitude of its severity is not well studied in Ethiopia. Hence, the researcher inspired to investigate the assessing electrical works occupational safety management practice: the case of selected building projects in Addis Ababa. Objective: The aim of this study was assessing electrical works occupational safety management practice: the case of selected building projects in Addis Ababa. Methods: Descriptive statistics study was used to analyze the data in selected building construction projects in Addis Ababa. A mixture of convenience and snowball sampling methods was used for sampling purposes. The collected data were coded, entered and analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26 software. Findings: The results of the present study have demonstrated the electrical works occupational safety management practice in selected building project sites in Addis Ababa. From the study, it was showed that users of electricity and other workers at site are not well informed or aware about electricity hazards and safety measures, there is no training at project sites, no wellorganized safety policy, involvement, and commitment of the company/management to wards safety is poor, there is no budget allocated for safety, no provision of PPE resources. Furthermore, there is no mechanism for reporting injuries and record data. Conclusion: From the result, the researcher concluded that electrical works occupational safety management practice in construction sites is very poor. Thus, documented and well-organized safety policies, regulation and procedures consisting of occupational safety requirements, at every construction project is essential for the safe working environment at construction sites especially for electrical works as any mistake or failure will have no any excuses on electrical accidents.