Abstract:
With rapid economic development and industrialization, the
construction industry continues to rank among the most hazardous industries
in the world. Therefore, construction safety is always significant concern
for both practitioners and researchers. The objective of this study was to
determine the feasibility and acceptance of performance approach to
construction worker safety in Khartoum state.
The study highlighted on top management, expeditor and individual
contactor Information was collected from a group of construction companies
and a group of engineers, expeditor and managers locations within the state
of Khartoum using the questionnaire system to obtain the necessary data for
the study where total sample size of 50 samples.
The results of the study concluded that the safety economic
performance approach is driven by the need to make building construction
more cost effective, the need to ease the introduction of product or systems
and process innovation, and the need to establish fair international trade
agreements. The study showed that the performance approach was
influential regarding to flexibility of approach, ease of implementation,
support innovation, simplicity of interpretation and potential to improve
safety performance on construction sites. And poor safety management at
small and medium construction companies refers to, small companies look at
safety as a cost factor and ignoring safety management plan, the culture of
small companies, the nature of the project, labors experience and their
quality the contractual relationship and law, poor documentation of accidents
in previous similar projects, the poor of safety culture in the country, poor
applications of polices and punishments, personal productive equipment
(P.P.E) highly costs.
