Factors affecting safety performance on construction sites in Sudan

Abstract

The construction industry is considered one of the most hazardous

industries, not only in developing countries but also throughout the world due to its unique nature. This makes more attention to construction safety to improve the safety performance of construction companies. This research aims to identify the factors affecting the construction safety and to establish rules to assess and improve the construction

safety of construction companies. The questionnaire design is composed of three parts to accomplish the objective of the research as follow: General information of company and respondent; information of safety

in company; factors affecting the safety performance in construction sites. Seventy-two sub factors were identified and grouped into eighteen

main factors. A field survey was conducted through a questionnaire including construction companies in Sudan.

The collected data were analyzed by using the commercially available statistical package using for social science (SPSS) for manipulation and analyzing the data. The analyzed data include the description

analysis includes: frequencies, means, Importance index was calculated to rank the safety factors.

The results showed that the most important main factors affecting the safety performance in Sudan from the eighteen ones are; these six factors as follow: 1- personal protective equipment 2- signs, signals and barricades; 3- crane and lifting equipment 4-Administrative & Management commitment; 5-Project Nature

6- excavation, trenching, and shorting;

Based on this study rules should be developed for easy use and to asses and improve the safety of the construction companies. Finally, from this research recommendation were derived in order to improve the safety performance of construction companies, with a set of recommendations for future work and studies.