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Mitigation Practices for Frequent Accidents in High Rise Building Construction
(SLIIT, 2022-02-11) Delpachitra, Y; Allis, C
High-rise building construction accidents are observed within the construction industry in Sri Lanka. These accidents represent a significant loss for the construction industry in terms of lives, cost, time, and the reputation of the construction company. To overcome those losses, this research aimed to develop the framework as guidance to mitigate frequently happening accidents in high-rise building construction in Sri Lanka. It was achieved by three main objectives, identify the frequent accidents in high-rise building construction, investigate the causes of frequent accidents happen and analyze the strategies to minimize them. The first two objectives were completed by literature review, and the third objective was completed by data collection while developing the second objective. The data collection was done through semi-structured interviews with 12 professionals who work as health and safety officers, project managers, engineers, and quantity surveyors in high-rise building construction. Only those who work in the Colombo area were considered here as a limitation. Under the first objective, scaffolding accidents, struck by falling objects, plant, and machinery accidents, falling from a height, and fire accidents were identified as frequent accidents in high rise building construction, and causes were listed below the human factors, material, and equipment factors, environmental Factors, safety technology factors, and management failures as the second objective. Essentially risk assessment, developing the site conditions, conducting training programs establishing safety system with the procedure control system, and establishing penalty procedure were the discoveries of the third objective, and those are categorized separately in the pre-construction stage and post-construction stage. According to all these findings, the framework was developed to identified relevant mitigation practices for the causes of high-rise building construction accidents, and this research recommended for government to introduce new regulations for safety while strictly following up the safety system of the high-rise building construction sites to reduce the accidents.
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Case Study on Safety Culture in Chemical Laboratories in Western Province, Sri Lanka
(Faculty of Humanities and Sciences - SLIIT, 2021-03-26) Samaranayake, A.D.A.I.; Nishadya, S.M.S.; Jayasundara, U.K.
A laboratory where chemicals are handled can be considered as a hazardous environment and hence, prudential practices should be strictly enforced. In Sri Lanka and around the world, there are numerous reports of accidents involving injuries such as deaths from chemical laboratories due to lack of safety rules. The purpose of this case study was to analyse the safety culture and the level of safety regulations existing within the chemical laboratories in Sri Lanka. A survey was conducted with the supervisors of the final year students (academic year 2018/2019) who attended industrial training at laboratories in the Western Province of Sri Lanka, representing both the private and government sector. Even though 80 surveys were distributed among 80 laboratories, only 46 surveys were submitted. The majority of the individuals who participated in the survey were between the age of 30 - 35, and none were below 20 years. Regardless of the working experience among the participants, 80% of them continue in the same workplace with the intention of moderate self-perceived risks. However, the majority considers safety an important factor with improved safety inspections compared to previous years. About half of the surveyed individuals stated that monthly inspections were carried out while 54% of the respondents mentioned that it was attended to by the employees from the laboratory. An astounding number of participants were prepared to take action in case of an emergency as they were aware of the location of the safety equipment and how to handle it. This study shows that the participants have positive attitudes towards the laboratory safety rules and inspections. However, the safety culture should be improved further to minimize laboratory related accidents or injuries.

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