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Site Accidents in the South African Construction Industry: Cleaning the Augean Stables

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Safety in construction processes is still a major subject of discourse among stakeholders in the construction industry. Accidents on construction sites have been a perennial problem and the issues still persist despite the renewed efforts in making sure it is drastically curtailed. The South African construction industry is not spared from the daunting challenges of site accidents. To this end, this study makes efforts in reassessing the measures of abating site accidents in the South African construction industry. A quantitative approach was adopted, which employed the use of questionnaire as the instrument for data collection. Acquired data was subjected to appropriate methods of statistical analysis. Findings from the study showed that the correct use of equipment and tools, and carrying out risk analysis are the most significant measures for the abatement of site accidents. The study made insightful recommendations that will help stakeholders in the construction industry in adhering to safety practices which in turn will bring about a mitigation of accidents occurrence on site.

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    Mathew Ikuabe, Douglas Aghimien, Clinton Aigbavboa, Ayodeji Oke & Wellington Thwala

  2. SARChl in Sustainable Construction Management and Leadership in the Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Wellington Thwala

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Jussi Ilari Kantola

  2. Institute of Maritime Operations, University of South-Eastern Norway, Borre, Norway

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Ikuabe, M., Aghimien, D., Aigbavboa, C., Oke, A., Thwala, W. (2021). Site Accidents in the South African Construction Industry: Cleaning the Augean Stables. In: Kantola, J.I., Nazir, S., Salminen, V. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 267. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80876-1_14

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