- Title
- Health and safety management practices in small and medium enterprises in the South African construction industry
- Creator
- Agumba, Justus, Pretorius, Jan Harm, Haupt, Theo
- Subject
- Construction industry - South Africa
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- uj:4898
- Identifier
- ISSN 1023-0564
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10210/12991
- Description
- Considering its share in, and impact on national economies, the construction industry receives additional attention in terms of its performance and productivity, especially among small and medium contractors. However, with the extensive workforce it employs, health and safety (H&S) issues have become important, since the industry still has the reputation of being one of those with the highest fatality and accident rates. It has been well established from literature and previous studies (Fernandez-Muniz, Montes-Peon & Vazquez- Ordas, 2007: 636; Rajendran & Gambatese, 2009: 1072) that managing H&S helps to ensure that construction organisations are achieving their H&S objectives. As such, H&S management practices constitute a vehicle to improve H&S performance. Given the dominance of small and medium contractors in the construction sector, the challenge is to determine what needs to be measured and practised by these Small and Medium Construction Enterprises (SMCEs) at project level. The objective of this article is to validate the H&S practices that small and medium construction enterprises practise in order to improve H&S performance at project level.
- Publisher
- Acta Structilia
- Rights
- © 2013, Authors & Acta Structilia
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