ASSESSING ROLE OF SAFETY AND HEALTH PRACTICE ON LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY IN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION IN CASE OF HAWASSA CITY.

Abstract

Safety and health in building construction industry still suffers from ignorance and lack of implementation. This low consideration of safety and health importance caused escalation of accidents rate in construction projects. Also construction productivity is not scourging when low productivity is causing delay in construction project. The main objective of this thesis is assessing safety and health practices related to productivity of labor in building construction. methodology used to gathered information are qualitative and quantitative survey, from qualitative survey used interview and quantitative survey used questionnaire. Respondents assigned to this research according to topic of research are client, consultants and contractor. Totally 61 questionnaire are distributed to respondent and from that return 41 questionnaire from respondents as described 75.4%. Techniques used to analyzed data are relative importance index (RII) and structural equation model (SEM). The outcome of research based on view of respondents such as client, consultants and contractor. the most important factor related to client perception “careless operation,” “non fair workload distribution on workers,” “lack of management to safety and health practice,” “lack of inspection procedures on site,” “lack of safety and health sign in site ,” and “ lack of technical guidance,” and related to contractor perception “lack of communication between main stakeholders toward safety and health practices,” “lack of management commitment to safety and health,” and “ lack of safety and health sign,” and also related to consultant perception “ lack of management commitment to safety and health,” “ lack of safety and health supervisor on site,” and “ poor safety and health awareness among stakeholders,”. The conclusion of research is management factors most important influence on labor productivity. Recommended to main stakeholders and concerned body invest more of time and money on management factors then get tangible result.