Effectiveness of Safety Control and Implementation in Construction Project

Construction industry is a booming sector of Malaysian economy, which
enhanced the growth of socio-economic of country as well as providing the
necessary infrastructure and enhanced facilities for social comfort. However,
it is stigmatized as the most hazardous industries due to high occupational
risks and unsatisfactory state of occupational safety. Therefore, this study
evaluates the factors affecting the successful implementation of safety control
practices in construction project through the application of structured
questionnaire and case study of high rise construction project. The statistical
techniques including Relative Importance Index (RII) and Average Index
(AVI) are used to analyze the data gathered, while the statistical package for
the social sciences (SPSS) is used to measure the Spearman’s rank correlation
between four different groups of respondents, the Cronbach’s alpha
(reliability test) and validity of the study.