Track: Occupational Safety and Health (OSH)

Abstract

The construction industry in Malaysia is one of the main contributors to the country's GDP. The construction industry also offers employment opportunities for local and foreign citizens.This paper developed a framework on safety influential factors for the performance of Malaysian construction industry. The paper reviewed relevant literature and figure out the most relevant variables coupled with the mediating variable on the developed framework. The conceptual framework in this paper depicts the relationships between Independent Variables (Management Activities on Site, Incentives, Policy Factors, Personnel Factors, Technical Factors, Process Factors), Mediating Variable (Staff Training) as well as Dependents Variable (performance of Malaysian Construction Industry). The paper show that there is a mediating effect on the relationship between factors influencing safety and performance of Malaysian construction industry.