Health and safety awareness among the Construction workers

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to identify the health and safety awareness among the construction workers. Objectives: Quantify the injury rates among construction workers, investigate the injuries by trade, event, type, bodily location and use of safety equipment’s. Methodology: 200 workers are randomly selected from the different construction area at Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh. A face to face interview was taken to conduct a cross sectional study. Result: A total of 200 participant was attended this study. The majority of the 37% participant was belonged to the age group 26-30 years. Among 200 participants 71 persons was worker such as helper of construction workers.87 persons was construction workers and 43 persons was painter. Most of the participants 71 %( n=142) receive only primary education.87.5% was smoker.64% have experience about use of construction equipment.47.5% people apply health & safety at construction site. The majority 75% do not have any training about health and safety. About 47% have experience of injury at construction site.Most of the injury occur due to fall from height 18 %( n=36). Although they have an experience of injury but majority 52.5% people do not practice any health and safety.Only 5% injured people were pain when they did not go to work due to injury.23.5% people was death at the construction site known by the participants. Only 26.5 %( n=53) take preventive measure to prevent this death.67% participants use safety harnesses to prevent fall from height.56% people think that they are secured with this safety harnesses. Conclusion: Although the rate of construction site injury is high but the participants are not aware about this injury. Most of them do not use any safety measure to prevent this accident. Keywords: Health, Safety, Injury.