The Paradox of Health and Safety Risks: A Disclose of Handling Strategies in Informal Construction Sites in Tanzania

Benson Rugalema Mwemezi, G. Kikwasi, Sarah Phoya
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Introduction: Informal construction (IC) involves people working in construction without a license or not under any kind of regulation. Due to its informality, the IC sector suffers from health and safety risk (HSR) handling strategies (HST). This study explored and ranked the HSR HSTs by masonry workers (MWs) in informal construction sites (ICS) in Tanzania. Methods: A total of 10 HSR HSTs were explored from 8 semi-structured interviews, and then, additional data were collected from 304 responses of MWs in ICS through a questionnaire that was formulated from the findings of the interviews. The study employed a sequential exploratory mixed methods approach whereby for qualitative data, direct content analysis was employed followed by quantitative data where descriptive and inferential statistics (one-sample t-tests) were used for analysis. Results: The results show that ‘considering past experience’, ‘sitting together and discussing on HSRs’, and ‘supervisor’s directives’ are the most significant ranked HSTs by workers in ICS. In contrast, ‘encouraging other artisans to work together’, ‘selling or sub-contracting the work to other artisans’, and ‘refusing to take high-risk work so as to avoid a risk’ are the least-ranked HSTs. Conclusion: The explored health and safety risk-handling strategies in IC workplaces highlight the need for a health and safety framework in the IC sector using a bottom-up approach. This would help policymakers and practitioners achieve sustainable development goals number three and eight, which promote good health and safety for all, sustainable economic growth, and full and productive employment and decent work for all.
健康与安全风险的悖论:坦桑尼亚非正规建筑工地的处理策略披露
导言:非正规建筑(IC)涉及无证或不受任何监管的建筑工人。由于其非正规性,非正规建筑行业受到健康与安全风险(HSR)处理策略(HST)的影响。本研究对坦桑尼亚非正规建筑工地(ICS)的泥瓦匠(MWs)的健康与安全风险处理策略进行了探讨和排序。方法:通过 8 次半结构式访谈共探讨了 10 项 HSR HST,然后根据访谈结果编制了一份调查问卷,从非正规建筑工地泥瓦匠的 304 份答复中收集了补充数据。本研究采用了一种顺序探索性混合方法,对定性数据直接进行内容分析,然后对定量数据进行描述性和推论性统计(单样本 t 检验)分析。结果结果表明,"考虑过去的经验"、"坐在一起讨论 HSR "和 "上司的指示 "是综合培训中心工人认为最重要的 HST。相比之下,"鼓励其他工匠一起工作"、"将工作出售或分包给其他工匠 "和 "拒绝接受高风险工作以规避风险 "是排名最低的人力资本成本。结论所探讨的集成电路工作场所的健康和安全风险处理策略突出表明,集成电路行业需要一个采用自下而上方法的健康和安全框架。这将有助于决策者和从业人员实现可持续发展目标三和目标八,即促进人人享有良好的健康和安全、可持续的经济增长、充分的生产性就业和人人有体面的工作。
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