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Importance of Study:
- To identify factors that affect occupational health and safety (OHS) awareness in the construction industry
- Beneficiaries:
- managers within field
1. To identify the various methods deployed by the management team to educate the workforce on occupational health and safety measures.
2. To discover how employees feel about the effectiveness of educational programs in increasing awareness of the health and safety requirements.
3. To determine if there are any other methods, besides education that are used by companies to increase awareness about health and safety regulations.
4. To find out how aware the construction workforce industry is, in regards to health and safety measures.
5. To note if there are any barriers for an effective communication of health and safety procedures, and what they are.
6. To receive employee’s suggestions on how to improve health and safety awareness amongst the construction industry.
7. To determine if length of employment has any direct relation on employee’s knowledge or level of awareness of occupational health and safety.
Proposition: There is a lack of occupational health and safety awareness in the construction industry.
Limitations:
- Incomplete surveys
- Time
-Cost
- Conclusive Study
- Research question
-Proposition
Target Population: construction workers ages 20-60
- 120 possible participants
Sampling Method:
- Non-profitability
- Snowball & Convenience
To identify the various methods deployed by the management team to educate the workforce on occupational health and safety measures
- Most common form of education used by employers was on-the-job training (27%)
- Other forms of education included meetings, with 16%, mandatory pre-training, and postings around job sites.
To receive employee’s suggestions on how to improve OHS awareness.
- better rewards program
- more frequent training
- regular follow ups
To determine if length of employment has any direct relation on employee’s knowledge or level of awareness of OHS.
- 41% of the respondents have been in the construction industry for five or more years.
- 40% of the respondents have completed post-secondary education which was industry specific
- it has been five or more years since 31% of the participants have been tested
Major Findings
To determine if there are any other methods used by companies to increase awareness about health and safety regulations, besides education.
- 95% of the participants said educational methods were the form of education
To find out how aware the workforce is within the construction industry is regarding OHS measures.
- 57% of respondents feel it is very important to be knowledgeable about OHS measures
- 31% of respondents, it has been longer than one year since workers have been tested on OHS.
-Shows workers know it is important, yet not they are not being tested as regularly as they should be
To discover how do employees feel about the effectiveness of educational programs in increasing awareness of OHS requirements
- 67% of the respondents feel that the educational methods are very effective.
Objectives
To note if there are any barriers for an effective communication of health and safety procedures, and what they are.
- there is a lack of training on the management
side
- the training that employees receive is unclear
- no follow up/ reinforcement after the training is received
-resulted in carelessness
Objectives
Jessica Chook
Azad Kavehnasabpour
Factors Affecting Occupational Health & Safety in the Construction Industry
- Lack of care from management side
- Resulting in employee carelessness
Recommendations:
- Pick more narrow and defined topic
- Increase time
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