Effect of Occupational Safety and Health on Project Performance: The Case of Building Contractors in Addis Ababa
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2021-04-03
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Occupational accidents are very common in construction industry but its impact on project
performance was barely studied. The purpose of this study was to scrutinize effect of health
and safety practice on construction performance by giving due consideration on the impact of
occupation accident of the three project performance measures: Schedule, cost and quality.
Accordingly, two building construction companies of BC 2 and BC 3 were selected for the
study. The Companies have a combined staffs of over 100 out of which 15 staffs are
administrative staffs and not directly exposed to construction site accidents and in effect
excluded from the study. The rest of the employees were entirely participated in the study.
Data were collected through questionnaire and analyzed through SPSS 20.0 using statistical
tools like ANOVA, mean, frequency and Standard deviation. According to the study,
construction place accidents were mainly emanated from failure of management to enforce
workplace safety policy and procedure, incompetence on the side of employee and scarcity of
PPE. Accidents happened due to these reasons impedes project schedule through disruption
of operation ; escalate project budget due to raise in insurance premium , re-work of
damaged works and compensation for injured employees; and in general adversely affect
project quality .
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Occupational health and safety, Occupational accidents, project performance