Effective Safety And Health Planning On Construction Sites
[ONITSHA AND AWKA OF ANAMBRA STATE]

5.1.4    IMPLICATIONS OF THE STUDY
This study on the effective safety and health planning of construction   activities, as a tool for accident prevention and control on sites has a lot of social, construction and economic implications. The results of this research having shown the types of accidents; types of health/safety problems; factors that cause construction health and safety problems; how health and safety problems can be mitigated and how government /professional bodies can play significant roles on health and safety matters on sites will go a long way in helping to fashion out ways to address the problems identified.
Results of the research also have implications for the construction worker; construction sector and the economy. Accidents affect not only the workmen, but also the project itself leading to cost and time overruns, litigation/compensation claims, project abandonment with consequential financial losses; which cumulative effects can rock the national economy.
If the results of the study are taken seriously and addressed, it will produce safer and healthier ways to carry out site work; lead to savings in the use of human and material resources; arrest the drain on medical staff and services; curtail the loss of thousands of man – days to production.
The results are a motivating factor to government, to ensure that its labour and safety Bill before the National Assembly is passed in to law, as soon as possible, to improve the standard of safety and health delivery in all work places in the country.
5.1.5    RECOMMENDATIONS:
Based on the findings of this study and the conclusions drawn from it, the following recommendations are made:
1.    The Bill on implementation of the National Building Code, presently before the National Assembly should as a matter of urgency, be passed into law; as a legislative instrument to dictate construction procedures.
2.    Monitoring and enforcement instruments for health and safety plan on sites should be put in place by government.
3.    Preparation and use of project health and safety plan should be made mandatory for construction projects.
4.    Mandatory and periodic safety training / workshop for construction workers should be made a national law.
5.    Safety officer’s office should be revived for firms with more than 20 workers in building operations or works.
6.    Use of protective clothing and wears for hazardous works should be made mandatory by law.
7.    Employers should be put under obligation to protect their workers from unnecessary accidents.
8.    Insurance Act (2003) N0 64 and others should be enforced.
5.1.6    SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH:
The following suggestions are made for further research.
(1)    Further research should be conducted to identify reasons why companies and construction workers flout safety and health construction procedures.
(2)    To identify the extent of awareness and degree of compliance with safe construction principles by firms and construction workers