The Adoption of Safety Technology on the Contractors' Firm Size in Kuala Lumpur

Lee, Rong Cherng (2021) The Adoption of Safety Technology on the Contractors' Firm Size in Kuala Lumpur. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

The adoption and implementation of innovative solutions is an effective way to improve construction safety performance. The implementation of technology as a preventive tool for stemming the observed disproportionate rate of worker injuries and fatalities in the construction industry as compared with other industrial sectors has gained substantial attention over the last two decades. Based on the previous study, most of the study only limited to the advance technology in general usage instead of specifically in safety construction. Most of the research in Malaysia addressed on safety technology in construction, but it only limited to the research studies, not really investigating the current practise in Malaysia ‘s construction industry. Thus, the main aim of the research is to study the effect of contractor’s grade in responding to the adoption of safety technology. Besides, the research also aims to investigate the safety technology applied in the construction industry to mitigate the workplace accidents and the barrier that hindrance the contractors in adopting the safety technology will be studied. Lastly, a comparison will be conducted to test each grade of contractors in the technology readiness index. At beginning, literature review gives a summary of different type of safety technology, contribution factor of safety technology adoption in small firm and big firm, Technology Readiness Index, predicator and barrier to safety technology adoption. To achieve the research aims, a questionnaire survey by email will be distributed to Grade 1 until Grade 7 contractors in Kuala Lumpur area to collect the contractors’ experiences and opinions to the research topic. Based on the data collected, there are 758 respondents responded to the questionnaire.