Assessment of Site Engineers Safety Culture in Construction Industry in Khartoum State

Abstract

In many countries construction industry plays an important role on economic and social development. In economic and developing countries Safety considered as an essential factor. Because safety rules are not committed in Sudan, construction industry suffers from unsafe situations in safety and health. This study seeks for evaluating safety culture for site engineers in construction industry in Khartoum state. In order to achieve the aims of the study the following objectives have to be done: First, identify the elements of safety culture. Second, assessment of safety culture for site's engineer's, and finally, developing methodological frame-work to improve safety culture for site's engineer's in construction industry. The study has been done in three stages: study of the previous literature reviews which have relevant questionnaire survey for data and finally inquiry accurately the findings through applied on (SPSS, 2017) program to analyse data. Data was collected through distributing the questionnaire for hundred constitutes in the field of Sudanese construction industry in Khartoum state. The rate of response is 100% for all questionnaires. The findings of the study show that site engineers have positive idea for five factors of safety culture which are: Management Commitment, Safety Priority, Safety Rules, Physical Work Environment and Personal appreciation Risk. Also findings explained that safety culture for site engineers is average. Another finding explained that, for improving and developing safety culture must give it priority in company headquarters, investigate causes that lead to accident, check out safety preparations and rotation training when new projects starting. Finally the study offered recommendations to the competent authorities who has decision and constitutes which work in construction industry sectors in order to improve safety culture.