The implementation of personal protective equipment (PPE) in construction site in Selangor / Siti Khairulnisa Mohd Khalid

The construction industry has been recognized as one of the hazardous industries. Although there is an improvement of the safety performance and increase in safety awareness in this industry, the accident rate is still one of the highest across all sectors. Besides causing human tragedy and economic...

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Main Author: Mohd Khalid, Siti Khairulnisa
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying 2015
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/15728/
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description The construction industry has been recognized as one of the hazardous industries. Although there is an improvement of the safety performance and increase in safety awareness in this industry, the accident rate is still one of the highest across all sectors. Besides causing human tragedy and economic losses, construction accidents also affect the productivity and reputation of the construction industry. The purpose of this study was to identify the importance of enforcing the used of PPE, to examine the implementation of PPE and to measure the awareness of using PPE in construction site. A quantitative research study was done using a questionnaire, interview session and the observation was made as a data gathering tool on workers who are exposed to occupational injuries and who use PPE for their protection. The findings revealed that even though workers were using PPE but there is lack of enforcement and the workers still got occupational injuries and illnesses. They also had problems with their protective equipment like incompatible types of PPE. In some instances unavailability of or unsuitable PPE posed challenges to these workers.
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spelling uitm-157282021-05-20T07:39:42Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/15728/ The implementation of personal protective equipment (PPE) in construction site in Selangor / Siti Khairulnisa Mohd Khalid Mohd Khalid, Siti Khairulnisa Malaysia Environmental engineering of buildings. Sanitary engineering of buildings The construction industry has been recognized as one of the hazardous industries. Although there is an improvement of the safety performance and increase in safety awareness in this industry, the accident rate is still one of the highest across all sectors. Besides causing human tragedy and economic losses, construction accidents also affect the productivity and reputation of the construction industry. The purpose of this study was to identify the importance of enforcing the used of PPE, to examine the implementation of PPE and to measure the awareness of using PPE in construction site. A quantitative research study was done using a questionnaire, interview session and the observation was made as a data gathering tool on workers who are exposed to occupational injuries and who use PPE for their protection. The findings revealed that even though workers were using PPE but there is lack of enforcement and the workers still got occupational injuries and illnesses. They also had problems with their protective equipment like incompatible types of PPE. In some instances unavailability of or unsuitable PPE posed challenges to these workers. Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying 2015 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/15728/1/15728.pdf Mohd Khalid, Siti Khairulnisa (2015) The implementation of personal protective equipment (PPE) in construction site in Selangor / Siti Khairulnisa Mohd Khalid. (2015) [Student Project] <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/15728.pdf> (Unpublished)
spellingShingle Malaysia
Environmental engineering of buildings. Sanitary engineering of buildings
Mohd Khalid, Siti Khairulnisa
The implementation of personal protective equipment (PPE) in construction site in Selangor / Siti Khairulnisa Mohd Khalid
title The implementation of personal protective equipment (PPE) in construction site in Selangor / Siti Khairulnisa Mohd Khalid
title_full The implementation of personal protective equipment (PPE) in construction site in Selangor / Siti Khairulnisa Mohd Khalid
title_fullStr The implementation of personal protective equipment (PPE) in construction site in Selangor / Siti Khairulnisa Mohd Khalid
title_full_unstemmed The implementation of personal protective equipment (PPE) in construction site in Selangor / Siti Khairulnisa Mohd Khalid
title_short The implementation of personal protective equipment (PPE) in construction site in Selangor / Siti Khairulnisa Mohd Khalid
title_sort implementation of personal protective equipment (ppe) in construction site in selangor / siti khairulnisa mohd khalid
topic Malaysia
Environmental engineering of buildings. Sanitary engineering of buildings
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/15728/