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Enhancing construction health and safety through the practices of reuse and recycle in waste management among Malaysian contractors

This paper contributes towards an overview of adoption level of reuse and recycles practice in Malaysia construction companies. Reuse and recycles practice includes in the activities of waste management. During the previous decades, waste of construction materials has become a serious issue as it co...

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Main Authors:	Mohd. Nawi, Mohd. Nasrun, Mohd. Nasir, Najuwa, Abidin, Rahimi, Salleh, Nurul Azita, Harun, Aizul Nahar, Osman, Wan Nadzri, Ahmad, Md. Fauzi
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Published:	Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development 2018
Subjects:	TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/86606/ http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/0976-5506.2018.01664.9
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spelling	my.utm.866062020-09-30T08:44:02Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/86606/ Enhancing construction health and safety through the practices of reuse and recycle in waste management among Malaysian contractors Mohd. Nawi, Mohd. Nasrun Mohd. Nasir, Najuwa Abidin, Rahimi Salleh, Nurul Azita Harun, Aizul Nahar Osman, Wan Nadzri Ahmad, Md. Fauzi TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) This paper contributes towards an overview of adoption level of reuse and recycles practice in Malaysia construction companies. Reuse and recycles practice includes in the activities of waste management. During the previous decades, waste of construction materials has become a serious issue as it contributes towards harm pollution for environment and human being. However, the practice of reuse and recycle of construction waste in developing countries such as Malaysia still at infancy level. Hence, this study focus to gain a local contractor perspective regarding the current level adoption of reuse and recycle implementation in construction sector. A survey method is employed through quantitative method by target the contractor’s organization located in Peninsular of Malaysia as a unit analysis. The findings of this study indicate that majority of the construction companies have awareness towards implementation of policy, method and procedure of reuse and recycle practices. Thus, it shows that the current level of adoption reuse and recycle practice in Malaysia construction companies getting better compared previously. Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development 2018-11 Article PeerReviewed Mohd. Nawi, Mohd. Nasrun and Mohd. Nasir, Najuwa and Abidin, Rahimi and Salleh, Nurul Azita and Harun, Aizul Nahar and Osman, Wan Nadzri and Ahmad, Md. Fauzi (2018) Enhancing construction health and safety through the practices of reuse and recycle in waste management among Malaysian contractors. Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development, 9 (11). pp. 1521-1526. ISSN 0976-0245 http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/0976-5506.2018.01664.9 DOI:10.5958/0976-5506.2018.01664.9
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topic	TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
spellingShingle	TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Mohd. Nawi, Mohd. Nasrun Mohd. Nasir, Najuwa Abidin, Rahimi Salleh, Nurul Azita Harun, Aizul Nahar Osman, Wan Nadzri Ahmad, Md. Fauzi Enhancing construction health and safety through the practices of reuse and recycle in waste management among Malaysian contractors
description	This paper contributes towards an overview of adoption level of reuse and recycles practice in Malaysia construction companies. Reuse and recycles practice includes in the activities of waste management. During the previous decades, waste of construction materials has become a serious issue as it contributes towards harm pollution for environment and human being. However, the practice of reuse and recycle of construction waste in developing countries such as Malaysia still at infancy level. Hence, this study focus to gain a local contractor perspective regarding the current level adoption of reuse and recycle implementation in construction sector. A survey method is employed through quantitative method by target the contractor’s organization located in Peninsular of Malaysia as a unit analysis. The findings of this study indicate that majority of the construction companies have awareness towards implementation of policy, method and procedure of reuse and recycle practices. Thus, it shows that the current level of adoption reuse and recycle practice in Malaysia construction companies getting better compared previously.
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author	Mohd. Nawi, Mohd. Nasrun Mohd. Nasir, Najuwa Abidin, Rahimi Salleh, Nurul Azita Harun, Aizul Nahar Osman, Wan Nadzri Ahmad, Md. Fauzi
author_facet	Mohd. Nawi, Mohd. Nasrun Mohd. Nasir, Najuwa Abidin, Rahimi Salleh, Nurul Azita Harun, Aizul Nahar Osman, Wan Nadzri Ahmad, Md. Fauzi
author_sort	Mohd. Nawi, Mohd. Nasrun
title	Enhancing construction health and safety through the practices of reuse and recycle in waste management among Malaysian contractors
title_short	Enhancing construction health and safety through the practices of reuse and recycle in waste management among Malaysian contractors
title_full	Enhancing construction health and safety through the practices of reuse and recycle in waste management among Malaysian contractors
title_fullStr	Enhancing construction health and safety through the practices of reuse and recycle in waste management among Malaysian contractors
title_full_unstemmed	Enhancing construction health and safety through the practices of reuse and recycle in waste management among Malaysian contractors
title_sort	enhancing construction health and safety through the practices of reuse and recycle in waste management among malaysian contractors
publisher	Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development
publishDate	2018
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/86606/ http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/0976-5506.2018.01664.9
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Enhancing construction health and safety through the practices of reuse and recycle in waste management among Malaysian contractors

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