Safety Awareness of Workers for Construction Sites in Nepal
Journal Title: JOURNAL OF ADVANCED RESEARCH IN CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 4
Abstract
Construction industry is one of the largest and most important industries in Nepal. Construction safety in the industry still suffers from ignorance and lack of supervision and accident rate on construction projects is very high. The objective of this study is to identify the awareness lunched in the construction industries that relate to safety, problems related ergonomic health and safety, and the status of safety engineering management as perceived by construction and consultancies to help reduction of accidents. A survey was conducted by using a numbers of questionnaires which was distributed to 38 respondents. Analysis of the responses found the most important factors that included: “Awareness programs are lunching in construction industries about health, safety and environment “Weather Construction firms are managing problems related ergonomic health and safety in construction sites? How well is the management of safety engineering in construction projects by every firm of Nepal? “.
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Madhav Prasad Koirala,
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