Barriers to Safety Practices Adoption in Construction Projects

Abstract

Various factors affecting the construction and engineering industry for rising engineer’s role in worker’s safety. The practices regarding the safety of workers are identified and divided into five tasks that are used in current construction industries, reviewing their designs, creating design documents, assisting the owner in procuring construction, reviewing submittals, and inspecting work in progress. Over six hundred construction labour death occurred in the United States during the comprehensive years of 2004 to 2006 that were related to construction equipment and contact collisions. Keywords: Construction fatalities, Design Criteria, Five Task, Worker’s death.