FARU - 2014http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/147122024-03-29T09:28:59Z2024-03-29T09:28:59ZUnder-reporting of construction accidents in Sri LankaRathnayake, UDe Silva, NNawarathna, Ahttp://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/134542019-08-15T04:01:31ZUnder-reporting of construction accidents in Sri Lanka
Rathnayake, U; De Silva, N; Nawarathna, A
Generally the work environment in the construction industry is more hazardous than in other industries, mainly due to the potential nature for serious accidents and health hazards by heavy use of large equipment, dangerous tools, and hazardous materials. Thus, the number of annual construction accidents are reported high and among them 50-60 are fatal. Moreover, these numbers are under reported and hence the actual number of construction accidents could be several times higher than the reported. Hence, this research attempts to investigate the most significant reasons behind underreported construction accidents and identify the loopholes of the existing reporting systems to recommend efficient mechanisms for occupational accident recording in construction industry. Accordingly, the research problem was approached through a pre study survey and an expert survey which followed by semi structured interviews. Various stakeholders including management, technical staff and workers in construction sites were interviewed.
The findings revealed that safety representatives of most of the construction organizations reluctant to report to the Labour Department through the district factory inspecting engineer when incidents occur, due to unawareness of legal provisions and burden of paper work. Moreover, lack of knowledge, awareness, systems, management commitments and other facilities exaggerated the situation. Additionally, a strong leadership towards inculcating occupational safety and health was identified as a deliberating need. Therefore, the study propose to appoint qualified safety representatives for each construction site of construction organisations, continuous monitoring of following up the legal provision on notification of accidents, introduction of a prescribed information sheet for all organisations who are involved in a case of an industrial accident and after an accident or development of an online portal and increase the awareness programmes on importance of maintaining records and reporting of industrial accidents.
Training and development framework to improve the maintenance workers’ productivity in the Sri Lankan Hotel SectorSatharasinghe, NFernando, NGSridarran, Phttp://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/134532019-08-15T04:01:05ZTraining and development framework to improve the maintenance workers’ productivity in the Sri Lankan Hotel Sector
Satharasinghe, N; Fernando, NG; Sridarran, P
The hospitality industry and hotels in particular, have witnessed increasing competition for high service quality and customer satisfaction. Sri Lankan hotel industry faces a range of difficulties due to lack of productivity of the maintenance workers. Training and Development (T&D) is one of the foremost part of human resource management which can influence to improve productivity of maintenance workers. Accordingly, the aim of this research is develop a T&D framework to improve the maintenance workers productivity in the hotel industry. Case study was selected as the most suitable research method for this study. The reasons being, the study needed to focus on in-depth decisions and behavioural attitudes of individuals and groups within and between organisations. Case study findings revealed that, organisations conceived a positive impression on the importance of systematic implementation of T&D to improve the productivity of the maintenance staff. However, the organisations found themselves confronted by some barriers on implementing such systematic processes. As a result, the importance of adapting such systematic processes and the benefits they may bring into the organisation remain unidentified by the organisations.
Sustainable public procurement process in construction industry : literature reviewGunawardhane, KAPKarunasena, Ghttp://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/134512019-08-15T04:00:43ZSustainable public procurement process in construction industry : literature review
Gunawardhane, KAP; Karunasena, G
The procurement process in the field of construction plays a significant role in changing world in both public and private sector. The Public PP (Public Procurement Process) mainly focuses satisfaction of the stakeholders in line with the development objectives of the country. The importance of public expenditures within the world economy has stimulated and established interest in how public money is spent, with an emphasis on transparency and openness through the Public PP. Though a new concept to the developing countries, SPPP (Sustainable Public Procurement Process) is not another type of procurement; it rather seeks to address the environment, social and economic consequences of procurement actions from the initial stage through the design, implementation up to the end of defect liability period of the construction project.
At present, the communities in Asian region are faced with worsening climatic conditions, poverty, deforestation and other environmental degradations. The developed countries have implemented the SPPP successfully as a solution to the challenges and gaps of existing procurement process.
Hence, the SPPP has identified as most accepted cost effective alternative method to address the challenges and gaps of the existing
procurement process in construction industry.
Thus, this research paper mainly focused to identify the best practices of the SPPP to the construction industryof the developing countries through the secondary datawith special emphasis to the Sri Lankan context due to the reason that economy of the country strive to transition to upper middle income country. Hence, relevant areas scrutinised through the critical literature review to explore the applicability of adopting SPPP to the construction industry in developing countries.
Potential brokerages in relationally integrated value networks (RIVANS) for total facilities managemen t: literature findingsWeerasinghe, RPNPDe Silva, Nhttp://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/134502019-08-15T03:58:23ZPotential brokerages in relationally integrated value networks (RIVANS) for total facilities managemen t: literature findings
Weerasinghe, RPNP; De Silva, N
The collaborative supply chain networks in relational contracting modes have gained considerable attentions in recent decades as an essential prerequisite for enhancing business performance. Accordingly, integration of Project Management (PM) and Facilities Management (FM) phases of facility lifecycle through a collaborative network of stakeholders has been recommended as value additional strategy for the built
environment professionals. Such value networks are called relationally integrated value networks (RIVANS) that operate extending PM and FM towards Total Facilities Management (TFM). TFM involves effective transferring of information, material, and services between PM and FM phases while sharing common goals among all stakeholders in entire life cycle of a facility. However, weak integrations among
stakeholders have identified as one of the greatest barriers to form RIVANS between stakeholders in both phases and hence poor performances during FM phase are experienced. TFM provides a holistic approach through RIVANS to bridge the PM phase and the FM phase in the lifecycle of facilities as a favourable approach. Therefore, this paper aims to integrate these two phases through RIVANS by linking stakeholder of both phases. Study found that there are problematic “structural holes” that exist in these networks, which impeded the flow of information, material, and services and are short term oriented. Long term oriented value network appears to be favorable in facilities
lifecycle to bridge the two phases through a common set of goals. Hence, the paper concluded that there is a brokerage potential of client’s facilities manager and project manager to bridge two network structures while strengthening structural holes. The brokers help to transfer material, information, and service between different stakeholders while enhancing better value through common goals.