- Title
- Drivers behind health and safety implementation in construction organisations within the Gauteng province in South Africa
- Creator
- Van Heerden, Jacobus H. F., Musonda, Innocent, Okoro, Chioma S.
- Subject
- Construction industry, Health and safety implementation, Gauteng
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Conference proceedings
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10210/238019
- Identifier
- uj:24397
- Identifier
- Citation: Van Heerden, J.H.F., Musonda, I. & Okoro, C.S. 2017. Drivers behind health and safety implementation in construction organisations within the Gauteng province in South Africa.
- Description
- Abstract: Research about the implementation of health and safety (H&S) in the construction industry is required, as it may create more awareness on strategies to significantly reduce the rate of incidents and fatalities in construction organisations. It may encourage such organisations to improve their H&S performances on construction projects. The aim of this research is to establish the drivers of H&S implementation in construction organisations within the Gauteng Province in South Africa. The research adopted a quantitative research methodology. A survey questionnaire was used to collect primary data. Judgemental and snowball sampling techniques were employed to select the respondents consisting of site engineers, site agents, contracts managers, construction managers and project managers. Data were analysed through descriptive statistics, mean item score and standard deviation. Findings indicated that the most important drivers are the need to manage hazards; organisations regard H&S as important; compliance with the legislation; consideration of H&S as a way to do business and to reduce costs associated with accidents and injuries. These results may assist construction organisations in setting H&S as a priority, since little attention has been paid to the objective of H&S implementation. This study was restricted to large construction organisations within the Gauteng Province in South Africa and therefore may not be generalizable to all construction organisations within South Africa and in other geographical locations.
- Language
- English
- Rights
- ©2017, authors
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