Association of Demographic Characteristics of Construction Workers and Work Environments to Workplace Accident in High Building (Hotel) Construction

Introduction: Until now construction sector is still dominant contributors on workplace accident (WA) in Indonesia. However, there is a limited report analysing the causal factors. Demographic characteristics and work environment are suspected factors to be responsible on this condition.

Objectives: This study aimed to analyse the factors associated with WA occurrence on high building (hotel) construction.

Method: This research has been conducted on 105 workers at a high building construction in Samarinda by one of Indonesian largest construction company. Factors observed were age, working experience, level of education, working time, adherence to a standard operating procedure, health and safety knowledge, health and safety attitude, level of noise, lighting at a workplace, and work fatigue. Cramer’s V test and odds ratio were applied to see an association between the WA occurrence and the factors as well as their level.

Results: During the 11 months construction, 58 WA occurrence were recorded. It is about 55.2% of the whole number of workers. Age (p=0.000), working experience (p=0.000), working time per day (p=0.001), adherence to SOP (p=0.000), lighting exposure (p=0.03) and health and safety knowledge (p=0.000) showed significance correlation on the WA occurrence.

Conclusions: Construction sector is still high risk work sector in Indonesia. Demographic characteristic (age, working experience and health safety knowledge) and working environment (working time, adherence of SOP, lighting exposure) are essential factors need to be considered to overcome the WA occurrence in high building construction.