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This article presents the methodology applied for the development of occupational safety and health costs model of the urban rail infrastructure projects in Malaysia. It consists of four phases; the identification of related issue and research problems, the establishment of the issues and importance of safety and health costs in the project phases, the determination of safety and health items considering cost significant including the cost weightage for those items, the development of safety and health costs model and the validation of the model by the expert who involved in the urban rail infrastructure projects in Malaysia. The works packages contractors (WPC) from viaduct (guideway) package of Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) and Light Rail Transit (LRT) were selected as the respondents for this research.
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To Cite this Article: Kamar, I. F. M. (2018). A Methodology to Develop Occupational Safety and Health Costs Model for the Urban Rail Infrastructure Projects. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 8(1), 569–581.
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