EVALUATION OF BUILDING DEVELOPER`S

APPROACH TO SAFETY AT THE

PRECONSTRUCTION PROJECT PHASE

Presented by:
A. S. Mahmoud, M. H. Ahmad, Y. M. Yatim, Y. A. Dodo
National Institute of
June 2019
International Alliance
Building Sciences Universiti Teknologi
June 2018 Malaysia UTM for Interoperability

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Presentation Outline

Background of the study

Study gap
Study Area
Survey overview
Study Outcome
Conclusion

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Background of the study

 Construction industry is a major economic stimulant to

many nation worldwide

 It provides infrastructures towards enhancing national

development with about 4.18% GDP to the Nigerian
economy in 2015

 The recurrence of casualties during construction

projects, makes the industry highly hazardous.

 Many safety assessment tools, models, frameworks

recommendation were develop and applied

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Background of the study

 The situations in developing countries are more severe

due to the complex nature of the industry.

 Incessant recurrence of accidents on Nigerian

construction sites indicates a low level of safety practices
in the industry

 Nigeria still lack laws and regulations on safety practices

 Building developers are continuously been troubles by

the accident occurrence in the industry.

 Jensen, Laustsen and Jensen, (2016), involvement of

building developer at all project phases is a fundamental
in achieving improve safety performance and reduce
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Background of the study
 Many research efforts have been made in Nigeria to
study the safety performance.

Nigerian Area of focus

researchers
1 Diugwu et al, (2015) • Accident are much impacted on the building developer

2 Udo et al (2016) • Lack of safety concern by the construction industry

stakeholders lead to various accident
3 Umeokafor et al (2014) • Accident is prominent on Nigerian building construction site

6 Umeokafor et al (2014) • Pattern of Occupational accidents in the industry

8 (Jimoh et al., 2017) • Identifying adherence of companies top safety measures,
however, impact of such has not been examine

9 Udo et al (2016) • Effect of lack of adequate attention

10 (Umeokafor, 2017) • Gaps created by lack of H&S legislation in specifying client
roles and responsibilities in H&S and procurement issues

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Study Gap

 What is probably lacking in the industry is

understanding of the building developers' approach to
safety on site.
This can be achieved through evaluation of the
building developer at the preconstruction project
phase to underpinned their safety performance at all
project phases.
Thus this paper aim to evaluate the approaches of
building developer at the preconstruction project
phase in the construction industry of Nigeria.

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Study Area

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Survey Overview

 An extensive literature review were conducted and four

different dependent variables were identified relevant to
the construction safety performance of building
developers.

 A total of 31 survey were administered to building

developers in Nigeria.

 27 valid responses were received across three states of

Nigeria, which represent 87% response feedback.

– 74% of the respondents are bachelor graduate and 26% are

master’s graduate. 37% of the respondents has 15 years’
experience while 63% had 5 – 10 years of practice.
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Survey Overview

 The panel of interview conducted had 7 practitioners

and 3 academic researchers. And all the panel
members acknowledged health and safety as their
area of expertise.

 Although, the research considered a small sample

size.

 Quantitative analysis were performed on the valid

data.

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Study Outcome

 How are safety considered at the conceptual phase

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Study Outcome

 At what level do you consider safety.

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Study Outcome

 Panel of expert indicate that contractor’s safety record

hardly form a bases for contractor selection.

 similarly building developers that consider safety at the

design stage usually share responsibilities and liability
with contractors

 In some instances - contractors takes full responsibilities of safety

issues on site.

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Conclusion

 Assessing the approaches of the building developers at that

level in the construction industry cannot be considered
thorough from the industry wide perspective.

 Understanding how accidents occur is fundamental to

establishing interventions to prevent their occurrence.

 The study contribute to the body of knowledge by providing

an understanding of the various approaches of building
developers to safety at the preconstruction project phase in
Nigeria.

 Demonstrate it significance in mitigating construction

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 Questions?
Thank You
A. S. Mahmoud, M. H. Ahmad, Y. M. Yatim, Y. A. Dodo
Faculty of Built Environment & Surveying
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia UTM

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