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Safety management is one of the safety frameworks that can be applied in construction industry to mitigate the occurrence of accidents and reducing the fatality rate among construction workers. However, data in 2020 shows that there were 206 cases of reported accidents in the construction industry in Malaysia, from January to December 2020. The increasing number of accidents in infrastructure projects involving construction workers has been around for a long time even though the safety management system had been implemented. Thus, the objective of this research is to determine the hindrance factors in safety management practices in the construction of infrastructure projects. A total of 205 questionnaire surveys were distributed to the safety officers who work at G7 contractor specialise in infrastructure projects in Kuala Lumpur area using a snow-balling data collection method. The result revealed that the tight project schedule, poor participation in the safety management practices and poor safety culture are the significant factors that hinders the safety management practices. While lack of motivation among workers is the least important factor that hinder the safety management practices. Thus it is hoped that by tackling and solving these issues may improve the safety management practices, and indirectly reducing the number of accidents and fatalities on the construction site.
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To Cite this Article: Ishak, N., Mansor, M. I. Bin, Ahmad, A. C., Jaafar, A. S., & Jaffar, N. (2022). Hindrance in Safety Management Practices in The Construction of Infrastructure Projects. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 12(8), 798 – 806.
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