Assessing Occupational Health, Safety and Environment Management Practices and Challenges at the New Headquarter Building Construction Project of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia
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2021-02-13
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Addis Ababa University
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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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Occupational Health, Environment Management, Construction Site, Practice Challenges;