英文摘要 |
The building construction was posed the highest risk caused by occupational accidents in the construction industry. From the literature reviews, most authors found that both the individual factors and safety, health management were the main cause of the accidents in the construction. Thus, this study explored the characteristic factors related to occupational accidents to improve safety and health management at Taiwan building construction sites. In addition, it also deals with the safety issues (especially safety and health management) on Taiwan building constructions based on Taiwan's Council of Labor Affairs (Executive Yuan) database. Cramér's V coefficient and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to analyse 1,326 accidents at building construction sites (2000-2015). This study found that temporary workers had the highest risk of accidents than did other workers. These workers always work in harsh environments and may not have steady work. Temporary workers are not provided with safety and health training and education; therefore, they are unaware of dangerous situations at construction sites, resulting in unsafe actions and failure to properly use personal protective equipment (PPE). In addition, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) did not pay more attention to safety and health management, especially self-inspection, regulations, and safety training and education. Falls or tumbles were the most common cause of injury at structure and construction facilities. These study findings can help the administrators eliminate the fall or tumble accidents which are the common accident and give the effective safety measure to control the unsafe conditions in Taiwan building construction. Therefore, each enterprise should improve and enhance the safety implementation of their worksite, especially, training and education for front-line workers. Besides that, these results provide a framework for understanding clearly characteristic factors related to the accidents and improving the safety strategies which are essential to prevent accidents from unfortunate sceneries. Furthermore, the Taiwan government should enact appropriate legislation to require all enterprises to improve safety and health management and to ensure that workers join safety programs as a job requirement. |