Application of Performance Approach to Provide Safety at Construction Projects

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.