Contractors’ Health and Safety (H&S) Performance on an Implementing Agent’s Projects

<p dir="ltr"><i>The study sought to develop a strategy to engender health and safety (H&S) compliance on an implementing agent’s (IA) projects. The IA’s project reports indicate that hazards and injuries frequently occur on their projects. The study adopted the quantitative method, which entailed a questionnaire survey of various project stakeholders to determine H&S practices and the degree of H&S compliance.</i><i> </i><i>The salient findings include: procurement processes include H&S; contractors undertake H&S training; workers require further development in terms of hazard identification and risk assessment (HIRA); contractor management is committed to and involved in H&S; H&S meetings are held regularly; H&S audits are conducted regularly, however, H&S inspections less so, and workers do participate in H&S.</i><i> </i><i>Conclusions include: construction H&S is a multi-stakeholder H&S issue; IAs can include H&S as a project value and influence project H&S; the IA that is the subject of the study is committed to H&S, and the IA has endeavoured to realise better H&S practices.</i><i> </i><i>Recommendations include contractors should focus on conducting HIRAs relative to every activity, more worker HIRA training, and developing workers’ ability to identify hazards and ability to conduct HIRAs, and more frequent H&S inspections by all site management staff.</i></p>