A study of construction safety administration on building sites in Nairobi area

Abstract

This study is about the administration of construction safety on building sites. The phrase construction safety is hereby used in its wider usage and meaning which embraces the occupational safety of workers involved in construction work on the sites, the safety of parties who may only be remotely associated with the activities on site either as pedestrians or other people carrying out their businesses near the site or in its immediate environs but close enough for them to be affected by accidents occuring on site and finally the safety of material property that is likely to be damaged in case of accident occurence emanating from the site activities. The term administration is taken to include the total control and direction of all matters that may relate or are circumstantial to the entire. state of safety of the construction work place. The study considers the administrators of safety at the construction site as being the complete institutional framework necessary for the existence of a construction work environment free of undue risks which are responsible for triggering off the accident causation mechanism......................................................