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Development of safety and health costs model for urban rail infrastructure projects / Izatul Farrita Mohd Kamar

Since its inception in 2011, the rapid development of the Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (KVMRT) System has contributed to a substantial amount of costs related to safety and health issues. Numerous scholars have analysed the two recognised typologies of safety and health costs, namely, prevention...

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Main Author: Mohd Kamar, Izatul Farrita
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Language:English
Published: 2020
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Environmental responsibility
Sustainability. Sustainable living
Malaysia
Philosophy. Relation to other topics. Methodology
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spelling my.uitm.ir.323872023-06-10T04:30:50Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32387/ Development of safety and health costs model for urban rail infrastructure projects / Izatul Farrita Mohd Kamar Mohd Kamar, Izatul Farrita Environmental responsibility Sustainability. Sustainable living Malaysia Philosophy. Relation to other topics. Methodology Since its inception in 2011, the rapid development of the Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (KVMRT) System has contributed to a substantial amount of costs related to safety and health issues. Numerous scholars have analysed the two recognised typologies of safety and health costs, namely, prevention costs and accident costs. However, studies on the prevention costs during the pre-construction phase of a project are quite rare and have mainly focused on the financial losses or accident costs incurred by the contractor and victim. Many of the rail construction companies or stakeholders lack knowledge and information concerning the calculation of the costs as the existing safety cost model was developed from the manufacturing sector, and, moreover, models from the construction sector are limited to general construction. Therefore, the current research aims to develop a safety and health costs model for urban rail infrastructure projects. Using a quantitative research approach, the study proposes to (1) identify the safety and health cost components that are commonly incurred to cost bearers, (2) determine the relationship between the cost bearers and the safety and health cost factors, and (3) develop a safety and health costs model. A total of eight viaduct/guideway packages of the MRT 1 (SBK Line) project and ten viaduct/guideway packages of the MRT 2 (SSP Line) projects were examined to obtain data for the study and analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software. 18 informants were involved to give information related with safety and health costs. The study found that 10 components of Prevention Costs, 2 components of Direct Accident Costs and 4 components of Indirect Accident Costs were commonly incurred by cost bearers. The Client Costs were affected by the Construction Period. The Employer Costs were related to the Types of Accident Classification, the total number of Days of the Stop Work Orders, and the Location of Body Injury. The Victim Costs were related to the number of days the victims were on Medical Leave. Finally, following the validation by experts’ and simulation, the safety and health costs model was successfully developed. The findings of the study offer a reliable calculator that may assist stakeholders in estimating the costs related to safety and health in construction projects, and, hence, enable them to plan their investments in terms of safety measures in a more insightful manner. 2020 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32387/1/32387.pdf Development of safety and health costs model for urban rail infrastructure projects / Izatul Farrita Mohd Kamar. (2020) PhD thesis, thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA. <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/32387.pdf>
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topic Environmental responsibility
Sustainability. Sustainable living
Malaysia
Philosophy. Relation to other topics. Methodology
spellingShingle Environmental responsibility
Sustainability. Sustainable living
Malaysia
Philosophy. Relation to other topics. Methodology
Mohd Kamar, Izatul Farrita
Development of safety and health costs model for urban rail infrastructure projects / Izatul Farrita Mohd Kamar
description Since its inception in 2011, the rapid development of the Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (KVMRT) System has contributed to a substantial amount of costs related to safety and health issues. Numerous scholars have analysed the two recognised typologies of safety and health costs, namely, prevention costs and accident costs. However, studies on the prevention costs during the pre-construction phase of a project are quite rare and have mainly focused on the financial losses or accident costs incurred by the contractor and victim. Many of the rail construction companies or stakeholders lack knowledge and information concerning the calculation of the costs as the existing safety cost model was developed from the manufacturing sector, and, moreover, models from the construction sector are limited to general construction. Therefore, the current research aims to develop a safety and health costs model for urban rail infrastructure projects. Using a quantitative research approach, the study proposes to (1) identify the safety and health cost components that are commonly incurred to cost bearers, (2) determine the relationship between the cost bearers and the safety and health cost factors, and (3) develop a safety and health costs model. A total of eight viaduct/guideway packages of the MRT 1 (SBK Line) project and ten viaduct/guideway packages of the MRT 2 (SSP Line) projects were examined to obtain data for the study and analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software. 18 informants were involved to give information related with safety and health costs. The study found that 10 components of Prevention Costs, 2 components of Direct Accident Costs and 4 components of Indirect Accident Costs were commonly incurred by cost bearers. The Client Costs were affected by the Construction Period. The Employer Costs were related to the Types of Accident Classification, the total number of Days of the Stop Work Orders, and the Location of Body Injury. The Victim Costs were related to the number of days the victims were on Medical Leave. Finally, following the validation by experts’ and simulation, the safety and health costs model was successfully developed. The findings of the study offer a reliable calculator that may assist stakeholders in estimating the costs related to safety and health in construction projects, and, hence, enable them to plan their investments in terms of safety measures in a more insightful manner.
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title_short Development of safety and health costs model for urban rail infrastructure projects / Izatul Farrita Mohd Kamar
title_full Development of safety and health costs model for urban rail infrastructure projects / Izatul Farrita Mohd Kamar
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title_full_unstemmed Development of safety and health costs model for urban rail infrastructure projects / Izatul Farrita Mohd Kamar
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