Model of the Maturity of Pre-construction Safety Planning

Across the world, construction safety still has poor performance. The construction accident rate is higher than in other industries. Construction safety is not only about worker, but also about public, property, and environment. In the line of safety of property, accident can damage construction elements, construction materials, equipments, and may generate delayed construction time. Therefore, accident prevention is an important aspect in a construction project. According to the old theory, accident prevention based on downstream approach and only the contractor responsibility, whereas the recent theory more based on upstream approach (needs a good/mature planning which conducted since pre-construction stage), and all participants in a construction project are responsible to develop the mature Pre-Construction Safety Planning (PCSP). The problems of this research are how the good (mature) of PCSP and how to evaluate/assess the maturity of PCSP. This research started by literature study, and then created the model of PCSP. This research use questionnaire, interview and focus group discussion (FGD) to identify and measure as well as validate the contribution of all project participants in PCSP. The Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) employed to generate aggregation model. Finally, the results of research, are: (1) the model for evaluating the maturity of PCSP in radar diagram, and (2) the results of evaluation to the several medium high rise building projects in Indonesia.