Determining the Significance of Safety and Complaince for the Timely Completion of Construction Projects in Pakistan

Abstract

Over the years many accidents have plagued the construction industry proving it to be one of the most hazardous natures of job. Due to accidents, delay is caused which in turn causes the project schedule to increase manifolds. Thus, the need for a new insight on safety and compliance arose to deal with timely completion of construction projects. This research was carried out in order to find out the delays caused to task completion due to non-compliance of safety rules and usage of safety equipment, its lack of awareness and accidents and how much it affects the project schedule. For current research, a mixed method was used for the quantitative data collection and E Questionnaires of stratified random sample 200 were floated amongst five registered construction companies currently involved in projects all over Pakistan. For the qualitative data analysis face to face interviews were conducted with stratified random sample of 10. The Independent variable (safety and compliance) and it's dimensions (accidents and awareness) were proved to have a positive effect on the dependent variable (timely completion of tasks) and were highly significant according to the qualitative research and the word count and word frequency derived from the interview questions and assessed through Nvivo10 proved that these variables were of great importance for the timely completion of tasks in a construction project furthermore this research study can further be applied down the hierarchy. For example in a construction site it can be applied to departments such as mechanical, civil, plumbing, and electrical and various others.