Geographia Technica, Vol 14, Special Issue 2019, pp. 221-231
EXPLORING THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH COST TYPOLOGIES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MALAYSIAN URBAN RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
Izatul Farrita Mohd KAMAR, Asmalia Che AHMAD, Mohmad Mohd DERUS, Nik Nur Khairunnisa Nik Mohd AINUL AZMAN (Perak, Malaysia)
ABSTRACT: Safety and health issues are very sensitive matters as they deal with human life. Unfortunately, the financial aspect of safety and health issues have been neglected as everybody wants safety, but nobody wants to pay a single cent for it. Work injuries create significant economic and humanitarian consequences to our society especially to the construction of urban rail infrastructure projects, where they involve billion of Malaysian Ringgit (RM). Understanding injuries and accident costs are necessary to an organisation when set up a budget on safety and health control. The objective of this paper is to review the literature on occupational safety and health typology costs for these projects. A review of the literature identified a set of components of safety and health cost typologies involved for the construction of these projects. The safety and health cost typologies comprise the 11 possible components for prevention, evaluation and monitoring costs, five components for direct costs of an accident, 16 for indirect costs of an accident and one component for an extraordinary cost. Underestimated cost of occupational safety and health could threaten the progress and overall project cost control and that affects the successful completion of these construction projects.
Keywords: Construction, Cost Typologies, Occupational Safety and Health, Urban Rail Infrastructure Project.
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