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and the lack of communication between workers and the site Fall from ladder,
in-charge (Maznan, 2010). Thus, it is important to reduce Falling from aerial lift form,
occurring of fall hazards as the fall fatalities are higher in the Falls from building girders or other structures.
construction sector. The typical measures such as training,
fall protection systems, enforcement of Acts and regulations, The causes of fall accident mainly classified by three main
safety awareness and fall prevention campaign, workplace components shown in table. They are,
inspection and effective safety management system can
mitigate the fall hazards in a construction site (Occupational Unsafe act of the persons,
Safety and Health, 2014). Unsafe working conditions,
Communication barriers.
III. METHODOLOGY
Causes of accidents
Problem Identification
Unsafe act Failed to use / wear
PPE
Improper use of PPE
To identify types of falls and Attitude of the
Literature review
causes of fall accident worker
Improper positioning
and posture during
Questionnaire working
Data collection survey Using defective PPE
Used defective
construction
Relative machineries (Tower
To identify Important factors for Importance cranes, etc)
causing fall accidents Index
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RII
participated in the survey. Respondents are EHS exports 0.4
having nearly 10+ years experiences, site engineers, safety 0.3
managers, Deputy project managers. 0.2
0.1
DATA ANALYSIS 0
RII = (5N1 + 4N2 + 3N3 + 2N4 +1N5) / (AN) RANKING THE CAUSES OF FALL ACCIDENT
Where, W = weights given to each factor by the RII FOR UNSAFE WORKING
respondents and will ranges from 1 to 5 where ‘1’ is less
significant and ‘5’ is extremely significant. A = highest weight CONDITION
(i.e. 5 in this case), N = total number of respondents, N 1 = No 0.9 0.83
of respondents for strongly agree, N5 = No of respondents for 0.8
0.77 0.78
strongly disagree. 0.66
0.7
0.6 0.56
IV. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
Axis Title
0.5
0.4
RANKING THE TYPES OF FALL
0.3
The following the result obtained the top ranked types 0.2
of fall and top ranked causes of fall accidents from the 0.1
analysis. 0
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RANK
8
RII
0.4 8 7
0.3 6 5 5
0.2 4
4 3
0.1 2
2 1
0
Unclear of information
Poor house keeping
Language barriers
Working at crowded space
0.64 0.622
0.62 types of fall accidents are fall from scaffolding, fall from
0.62
ladder and fall from roof. This result shows, that these three
0.6 types of fall accidents mostly occurred in the construction
0.58 site. The top two causes of fall accidents based on unsafe
0.56 working conditions, unsafe act and communication barriers
are working at height, unprotected edges, failed to use PPE,
attitude of the workers, language barrier and poor
understanding of signages respectively.
V. CONCLUSION
Based on the study and survey Falls from heights,
Scaffold collapse, Electrocution, and Repetitive motion
injuries are the hazard for the workers. From that hazard, fall
from height was the top hazard in the construction sites
based on OHSA and preliminary survey conducted with
UNSAFE ACT experts in the safety field. The main objective of the study is
to identify the top type of fall and causes of fall. From the
questionnaire survey, it was identified. The result shows that,
Figure 5 RII for Communication barriers the three top types of fall accidents mostly occurred in the
construction site are fall from scaffolding, fall from ladder
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