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Enhancing the construction projects safety performance level to confront the civil engineering trades-related hazards

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  • Ahmed Yousry Akal
  • Amr Metwally El-Kholy

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Purpose - This work affords a practical checklist that specifies the civil engineering trades-related hazards and offers a safety indicator to identify the safety level of a construction project concerning the hazards of the civil engineering trades. Design/methodology/approach - The methodology depends on reviewing the archival works, visiting the construction sites, utilizing the direct observation and preliminary hazard analysis methods and conducting semistructured interviews to pinpoint and validate the checklist of the civil engineering trades-related hazards. Additionally, a questionnaire-based survey with the rank sum weight technique has been employed to assemble and analyze the data required to build the safety indicator. Findings - Relying upon the used methodology, 70 hazards under the trades of general environment, earth, demolition, excavation, concrete, dewatering, waterproofing insulation and scaffolding have been pinpointed and validated. This is in addition to the safety level indicator of the civil engineering trades-related hazards (SLICETH), which indicates high viability during its validation in five national and international projects. Originality/value - The value of this work lies in its ability to tackle the gap existing in the safety management knowledge regarding the notion of the hazards of the civil engineering trades and their influences on the safety performance of the construction projects. As a result, it offers a complete knowledge to the academics and the practitioners for confronting the negative impacts of the civil engineering trades-related hazards. Consequently, it helps in enhancing the safety performance level in the sites of the construction projects.

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  • Ahmed Yousry Akal & Amr Metwally El-Kholy, 2020. "Enhancing the construction projects safety performance level to confront the civil engineering trades-related hazards," Journal of Advances in Management Research, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 18(3), pages 468-501, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:jamrpp:jamr-08-2020-0198
    DOI: 10.1108/JAMR-08-2020-0198
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