Safety Management and Hazards Control Measures in Construction

Abstract

With the rapid globalization there is a massive increase in construction activities all over the world specially in developing country like India. The present study deals with the hazards arising in these construction activities. This thesis will be useful to avoid potential hazards as the data used in the project was obtained after evaluating the questionnaires supplied to 25 active construction companies out of which 12 active companies corresponded with answered questionnaires. The thesis focuses on the use of RII (relative importance index) technique for evaluating different critical factors and proposing several mitigation techniques for avoiding hazards occurring during construction stages of project. The hazard analysis, accident analysis causes of accidents types of hazards were closely studied to achieve unsafe conditions