An Investigation into the Relationship between the Safety Attitude of Construction Professionals and Accident Rate in the Construction Industry

Shi, Hong Jian (2022) An Investigation into the Relationship between the Safety Attitude of Construction Professionals and Accident Rate in the Construction Industry. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

Construction is one of the most hazardous workplaces in all around the world. Awareness about workers’ attitude towards safety could be helpful in anticipating the workers' behavior. The aims of this study were to determine the relationship construction workers' safety attitude between occupational accidents. According to SOCSO, in 2000 to 2009, it reported 656 555 accidents in all industries and there are 42775 cases of accidents in the construction industry which is 6.5% of all accidents in industries in our country (Heap Yih Chong, 2015). One-hundred fifty had experienced at least one occupational accident. Requisite variables of workers were collected via both standardized questionnaire and checklist. The participants were selected randomly with the stratified random sampling. The data were statistically analyzed using logistics regression, multivariate logistic regression and Spearman correlation coefficient where applicable (with a preset probability of (P<0.05). All participants were male with a mean age of 34.87 ± 7.44 yr. 21.8% of participant’s experienced occupational accidents. 81.7% of them were married, 51.5% workers had job-related to education and 37.4% did exercise routinely. Many of them were in high education level (35.8%), 74.6% had a negative safety attitudes and 25.4% had positive safety attitude. The results showed significant correlation between education level (P=0.001), exercise (P=0.014), accident experience (P=0.001) and occupational safety attitude. Age (P=0.108), marital status (P=0.554), and job-related to last education (P=0.307) did not have any significant correlation with safety attitude (P>0.05). Accident experience, as well as education level, could affect positively on changing workers' safety attitude.