Building Construction Occupational Health And Safety Assessment - A Case Of Condominium Site Projects In Addis Ababa

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Construction industry has been recognized as one of the common hazardous industries in bothrndeveloped and developing countries. Injuries and work related hazard on building constructionrnsector present a major effect on the workers in the field, and resulting major influences on sociorneconomic consequences. Hence the objective of this research paper is to finding out major safetyrnand health related injuries & hazards in condominium building construction (40/60 and 20/80)rnschemes to reduce health related injuries and increases safety; so that 139 condominiumrnbuilding construction workers were included in the study with proportional allocation formularnsampling techniques. The data has been composed through structured and pre-testedrnquestionnaire and interviews; accordingly analyzed using descriptive statics with MicrosoftrnExcel & SPSS Software. rnThe study result shows major injuries that have been identified from field survey falling fromrnheight 70% for 40/60 schemes and 65% for 20/80 schemes, injury due to manual handling 78%rnfor 40/60 schemes and 51% for 20/80 schemes, injuries due to moving equipment 61% for 20/80rnschemes and 52% for 40/60 schemes and finally health problem due noise 46% for 20/80rnschemes and 48% for 40/60 schemes. The prevalence injuries among workers in condominiumrnbuilding construction were reported to be 48.9%; additionally injuries significantly associatedrnwith age, sex, educational level, experience and the type of occupation of the workers.rnFurthermore the study shows occupational injuries are common among construction workers,rnthus counter measures are recommended such as organized hierarchy department structure forrnoccupational health and safety to decrease prevalence of injuries.

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