| dc.description.abstract | The building and construction industry is the fundamental industry for livelihood. In recent years, building and construction industry has ranked the top in injuries or death among industries, as there are thousands of occupational hazards derived due to the industry’s special characteristics, such as varieties in types of work, low-cost bids, multi-layers of contracting and so on. This resulted in difficulties in workplace safety and hygiene management. The building and construction industry also differs from others in working environment, due to the fact that in this industry, the workplace is constantly changing and with these changes, the progress of work would differ and in turn continuously change the risk factors, ultimately shaping out an unsafe working environment, which substantially increased the risks to workers in the building and construction industry. According to the statistics data from the Executive Yuan’s Council of Labor Affairs show that the workers in the building and construction industry only account for 10% of the total workforce, but throughout the years, the numbers of workers died from major occupational hazards summed up to more than 50% of all industry workforce, whereby the small to medium construction projects ranked the highest. Although the numbers have effectively reduced after the endorsement of relevant occupational hazards mitigation plan, but the death from domestic occupational hazards remained high. The reason being that the small to medium construction projects are restricted with cost budget and the contract generally doesn’t include fees for workplace safety and hygiene, and the latter part is only included upon request, if requests weren’t made, then it would not be included. Even if there are regulations and binding laws, this section has been left blank for the small to medium construction projects. In order to create a safer working environment, this research has taken into accounts the special characteristics with the small to medium construction projects to research into a workplace safety and hygiene system suitable to small to medium construction projects and hope that through the support by the small to medium construction projects on this workplace safety and hygiene system, the occurrences of the incidence of occupational hazards can be reduced.
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