dc.description.abstract | Construction Engineering is the fundamental industry ranging from small-engineering as road, house, and bridge construction, to large-engineering as rapid transit, power plants, and dam construction. However, construction engineering is different to other industry due to its working environment. Most of the construction engineering environment changes rapidly. In the meantime, the risk factors change at different stage of construction, therefore the unsafe working environments increased.
Accordingly to the statistics data from Labor Affairs Council of Executive Yuan, workforce of construction industry accounted for less than 10% of the total workforce, however, historical record shows the death rate due to work, accounted for more than 50% of total workforce. Moreover, public construction disasters accounted for more than 50% of construction industry (2002~2004). In order to prevent disasters during work, competent authority has implemented relevant projects and law revision towards disaster reduction. Furthermore, with support from state, private owned business units and inspection authorities, the disasters within construction industry have reduced significantly. Construction industry analysis from 2001 to 2007 shows that the number of recent disaster has been reduced due to significant disaster reduction in public construction (accounted for 29.9% of construction industry in 2007). The effect of reduction from civil engineering is limited, thus this shows the prevention in public construction is vitally important towards disaster prevention. Therefore, government should continue to implement disaster reduction projects and measures, and expands those concepts to other public constructions in different counties/cities. Moreover, establish health & safety management of labor along with construction that is in process, and transfer the structure of health and safety management for public construction to civil engineering. Enhance the prevention of implementation falling, collapse objects, and electric related objects (account for more than 70%). Set measures on disaster prevention based on the analysis of disaster type and its cause. Furthermore, establish construction site management, and on-site patrol unit to safeguard on-site safety. In additional to that, enhance labor training on the use of protection equipment, in the hope to reduce risk and provide safer working environment.
Although in recent years, disaster mitigation plan has emerged to promote the effectiveness of disaster reduction, however, occupational hazard in Taiwan still have room for improvement comparing with other countries, and build a safer working environment for labors, under the condition of health and safety management mechanism.
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