Assessment On The effectiveness of occupational health and safety preventive and control measures in construction project:

Abstract

The study evaluated the effectiveness of occupational health and safety preventive and control measures in construction project in Iringa Municipal. This study employs descriptive research design. Data were collected from 45 respondents. The study also used both primary and secondary data to gather information from the respondents. Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentages, mean and standard deviation. Qualitative data were analyzed using content analysis. The study findings concluded that safety informational notices and site fencing, protective equipment, First-aid facilities and Safety trainings as the compliance to basic occupational safety and health practices at the construction sites in Iringa Municipal. The study sought to find out the extent to which the clerk of works or site supervisors/or assessors intervened to ensure compliance to the occupational safety and health practices. The study concluded that construction project stakeholders intervene to influence adoption of occupational safety and health practices at sites in Iringa Municipal. In the last objective, there were varying views on the challenges facing the county’s construction workplaces in the implementation of the occupational safety and health practices in Iringa Municipal, lack of management commitment and lack of Knowledge of advanced safety practices as the challenges facing the county’s construction workplaces in the implementation of the occupational safety and health practices in Iringa Municipal. It is recommended that monitoring bodies rarely conducts site inspections. Such bodies should be appropriately supported to give them capacity to monitor all industry players to ensure they provide a conducive working environment and adhere to statutory laws and regulations on health and safety, construction firms and project managers should be compelled to understand the safety and health laws and regulations through training accompanied with evidence. Implementation of such regulations should be a mandatory requirements to all construction workplaces, all construction project stakeholders, especially project owners to subcontracted projects, and consultants should be concerned with site safety matters as part of the subject in project inspections and monitoring and there should be an appropriate risk assessments in relation to the safety and health of employees and, on the basis of these results, adopt preventive and protective measures to ensure that under all conditions of their intended use, all chemicals, machinery, equipment, tools and process under the control of the employer are safe and without risk to health and comply with the requirements of safety and health provisions of OSHA and other regulations.