#Cleanliness tidiness full#

Several strategies have been suggested to overcome the problems, the strategies are to provide effective safety training, allocation of budget for safety management, full commitment from the top management, and to provide safety booklets in various languages as the strategies to reduce problems in safety practices. Nevertheless, several problems are encountered in the safety practices the problems are ignorance of workers on work procedures, lack of financial allocation for safety management, lack of awareness among workers, and language barrier between supervisors and workers. Among the practices are safety policy, education and training, site safety inspection, safety auditing, safety meeting, site safety organization, personal protective equipments, emergency support and safety measuring devices, fall protective systems, and safety promotions. It is concluded from the research findings that generally the construction site has good and structured as far as safety practices are concerned. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with the safety officer of the respective project.

Two case studies were conducted for data collection. In line with the efforts to reduce accidents at construction sites in Malaysia, the objectives of this research are to determine the current safety practices at construction sites, to identify the safety practices related problems, and to identify the strategies to reduce the safety practices related problems.

Even so, for nationwide awareness on the topic matter will requires full cooperation from all related parties.Ĭases of construction site accidents always happen. Conclusively, construction site's cleanliness and tidiness is highly vital. In addition, poor personnel's working attitude was found to be the main risk factor that will influences a construction site's level of cleanliness and tidiness. It was found that from the contractor's perspective, ensuring a site cleanliness and tidiness is of importance mainly due to the need in protecting the environment, whilst, the least in cost saving. The goals of the survey study were to identify the following items from the perception of the contractors: (i) the hierarchy of importance of several purposes in ensuring construction site's cleanliness and tidiness, and (ii) the risk factors that influence a construction site's level of cleanliness and tidiness. Petaling Jaya was chosen since this area are developed area covered with residential area and cleaning management an importance issues. A set of questionnaire was distributed to thirty-four (34) Grade 7 CIDB contractors' firms in Petaling Jaya. The objective of this study was to explore constructor's perspective on site cleanliness and tidiness. Nevertheless, to date, statistics had shown that housekeeping related accidents happened repeatedly despite the awareness on site's cleanliness and tidiness. This is especially of priority today due to the rapid growth of construction projects in Malaysia. A good site management with adequate planning in regards to housekeeping will ensure safety to both the site's working personnel and the neighbouring environment. Construction site's cleanliness and tidiness is one of top main concerns of construction site management.